• October 3 2024
  Europe Express

  Why the EU fears a major war in Lebanon Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Will tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles hurt the green transition?

  
• October 2 2024
  Brexit

  UK and EU pledge to hold regular leaders’ summits from 2025

  Von der Leyen and Starmer agree closer co-operation between London and Brussels

  
• October 1 2024
  Europe Express

  Stoltenberg steps down after a decisive decade for Nato Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: German business’s war on red tape

  
• September 30 2024
  Europe Express

  EU ministers scramble to find a response to Middle East carnage Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: how pro-Russia sentiment is spreading in Italy — and elsewhere in Europe

  
• September 24 2024
  Europe Express

  One year on, Serb hardliner attack still hangs over Kosovo Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Tusk uses immigration audit to hit back at former rightwing government

  
• September 22 2024
  Martin Sandbu

  Why Europe needs a foreign economic policy

  Current EU structures discourage joined-up thinking in pursuing geostrategic goals

  
• September 13 2024
  War in Ukraine

  Why EU support to Ukraine once again hinges on Hungary Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Mussolini’s granddaughter leaves Italy’s governing party for being too right-wing

  
• September 12 2024
  Steven Everts

  How to reboot EU foreign policy

  The bloc urgently needs new ways of working and must change how it conceives of key partnerships

  
• September 11 2024
  European Commission

  Forming a European Commission runs into delays and roadblocks Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Why the EU has not joined western powers in sanctioning Iran over arms deliveries to Russia (yet)

  
• August 30 2024
  Europe Express

  How EU membership issues soured a relations-reset lunch with Turkey Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Serbia inks a deal to buy French fighter jets

  
• August 8 2024
  Misha Glenny

  Serbia’s strongman ruler leans west with a lithium deal

  Russia is displeased with the latest sign that President Aleksandar Vučić is integrating his economy with Europe and the US

  
• August 2 2024
  EU sets up team to prepare for Trump’s potential return to power

  Officials to assess possible impact on bloc’s trade and defence policies if former president returns to White House

  
• July 31 2024
  Israel-Hamas war

  EU and US race to prevent Mideast war after Israeli assassinations

  Diplomats hold crisis talks in effort to stop full-blown war in reaction to killing of Hizbollah and Hamas leaders

  
• July 22 2024
  Europe Express

  Is it time for the EU to rethink its engagement with Syria? Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: has Giorgia Meloni manoeuvred herself into a corner?

  
• July 16 2024
  War in Ukraine

  Trump has ‘well-founded plans’ for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Orbán claims

  Hungarian prime minister tells EU leaders in private letter that Republican candidate would rapidly push to end the war

  
• July 16 2024
  UK foreign policy

  UK and EU consider first summit to improve post-Brexit relationship

  Keir Starmer wants to establish defence pact and ease trade tensions in areas such as agricultural goods

  
• July 11 2024
  Europe Express

  EU leaders scheme backlash to Viktor Orbán’s freelance diplomacy Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: how children could help deepen the EU’s capital markets

  
• July 11 2024
  Orbán’s trip to Moscow in breach of EU treaties, legal service says

  Hungarian PM’s freelance diplomacy sparked condemnation from European and Nato allies

  
• July 8 2024
  EU-China relations

  Orbán hails China as ‘key power’ for promoting peace in Ukraine during Beijing visit

  Hungarian premier has rattled EU and Nato allies with recent diplomatic forays to Kyiv and Moscow

  
• July 2 2024
  War in Ukraine

  Orbán meets Zelenskyy on first wartime trip to Ukraine

  Prominent critic of military aid to Kyiv asks neighbour to consider ceasefire proposal

  
• June 30 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Biden’s debate performance jolts Europe’s anxiety over Trump

  Long-standing concerns in EU capitals about US president’s fitness are starting to be aired publicly

  
• June 25 2024
  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Europe boldly redefines security for a new age of threats

  Focusing on the environment and technology can lay the ground for handling non-military as well as military challenges

  
• June 25 2024
  European Union

  EU seeks to insulate itself from Orbán’s vetoes

  Hungary’s Eurosceptic premier has blocked an increasing number of Ukraine-related decisions

  
• June 14 2024
  G7

  G7 threatens China with further sanctions over Russia war support

  Leaders accuse Beijing of ‘enabling’ Ukraine conflict and consider more confrontational stance on its economic policies

  
• June 7 2024
  War in Ukraine

  Ukraine ready for EU membership talks, Brussels says

  European Commission recommends start of accession negotiations this month but Hungary could cause delays