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<title>Europe’s Self-Inflicted Humiliation: When Weakness Becomes Policy</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The commentary delivers a brutal diagnosis of how Europe now talks about itself – and why it is doing real damage. Europe’s leaders increasingly frame the EU as helpless, late and outmatched, not because it is always true, but because humiliation has become a communications strategy. The piece argues that this habit, meant to shock publics into accepting reforms or sacrifices, is backfiring badly.]]></description>
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<title>France Wants to Lead: The Capacity Is There, the Conditions Are Not</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France still sees itself as a leader, but this study questions how far that ambition can travel in today’s Europe. Paris has military assets, diplomatic reach and strategic instinct. What it lacks is a stable platform to turn intent into sustained leadership. Capability exists. Consistency does not.]]></description>
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<title>Germany’s Back Door Problem: Migration Keeps Flowing, Control Lags Behind</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany thought it had migration under control. This working paper shows otherwise. Flows through the Western Balkans remain a quiet but persistent pressure point, feeding Germany’s asylum system and exposing gaps between policy promises and reality. The system is not collapsing, but it is creaking under strain that politicians prefer not to spotlight.]]></description>
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<title>Germany’s Space Gamble: €35 Billion, Big Promises, Hard Risks</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany is pouring billions into military space, and this commentary asks whether the bet will pay off. Berlin wants satellites, resilience and strategic relevance, but the analysis makes clear that money alone will not fix deep capability gaps. Space is becoming central to modern warfare, and Germany is starting late in a crowded, unforgiving race.]]></description>
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<title>Brussels Talks Strategy, Europe Still Drifts</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Commission wants to be seen as Europe’s strategic brain. This report asks how much steering power it actually has. The answer is uncomfortable. Brussels can frame debates, launch initiatives and warn about risks, but when hard choices appear, control slips back to national capitals. Strategy is talked up, not locked in.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Defence Illusion: Big Plans, Empty Magazines</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is talking war, but preparing peace. This report strips away the speeches and summit slogans to reveal a defence posture that looks busy yet delivers almost nothing at speed. While threats multiply on Europe’s borders, the EU’s military readiness remains slow, fragmented and painfully unfit for a real crisis.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Military Autonomy Mirage: Choices Delayed, Dependence Deepens</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe keeps talking about standing on its own feet, but this analysis shows how shaky the ground really is. Military autonomy sounds bold, yet the hard decisions keep being postponed. With war back on the continent and US politics unpredictable, Europe faces a brutal question it still refuses to answer: what actually comes first when independence costs real money and power?]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Radical Right Smells Opportunity: Trump’s Shadow Changes the Game</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe’s far right is watching Washington, and it likes what it sees. This study argues that a second Trump era would not just shake the US system but turbocharge radical right movements across Europe. The shock is not ideological inspiration alone. It is the signal that disruption works and that liberal guardrails can be bent or ignored.]]></description>
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<title>France Shrinks on the World Stage: Home Politics Wreck Foreign Power</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France still talks like a global player, but this analysis shows how domestic chaos is hollowing out its international role. Political fragmentation, protest politics and permanent campaigning are dragging foreign policy down to size. Paris wants influence abroad while barely holding authority at home.]]></description>
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<title>Merz’s First 100 Days: Big Promises, Hard Reality Sets In</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The analysis takes stock of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first hundred days and finds a government eager to signal strength but constrained by the same limits that trapped its predecessors. Rhetoric has sharpened, priorities look clearer, and ambition is back in Berlin. The problem is delivery.]]></description>
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