Yet the deeper risk is subtler. Fragmentation could occur not through formal secession or treaty rupture, but through policy ...
The US plan for an end to the war in Ukraine calls for Kyiv's EU accession by January 2027, though experts generally consider ...
EU capital markets remain fragmented; while rules are enacted at EU level, they are mostly set out not through regulations, but through directives, leaving leeway in how the national supervisory ...
The idea that European integration should take this bulbous form started as a joke by Bart De Wever, a continental wit who ...
“I believe the time has come to bring Europe’s mutual defense clause to life,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. Her words captured ...
Opinion

Europe Shows Its Cards

Today, EU leaders met with Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta in a castle in Belgium, only a stone's throw away from Maastricht.
The poll found just 17% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to stay outside the EU if there was another referendum compared to a huge 83% who would vote to rejoin.
The EU Data Act does not ask whether your contracts are well drafted; it asks whether your systems can prove they are being ...
MAX BERGMANN is Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
EU governments have long preached unity as the best response to U.S. and Chinese economic pressure, but are discovering they ...
The UK will seek “deeper economic integration” with the European Union and move closer to the single market in more sectors, ...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest proposal would involve deepening ties between the European Union and the CPTPP, a Pacific trade organization.