European defence after the NATO summit Podcast Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes 17 July 2026 Mark Leonard welcomes Camille Grand and Marta Prochwicz Jazowska to discuss last week’s NATO summit and ...

For the second July running, a controversial decision from President Volodymyr Zelensky has sparked protests across Ukraine. Last year it was his attempt to weaken two anti-corruption bodies. This ...

With American competitiveness declining, the EU has a chance to offer tech start-ups something better. To create this new ...

Some European leaders seem to think that abasing themselves for Donald Trump’s pleasure is necessary to save NATO and keep ...

MUJAO split from AQIM in October 2011, following accusations that AQIM was too dominated by Arab commanders and criticisms of its methods of jihad. From the beginning, MUJAO had a clearly Sahelian ...

As European leaders boost defence spending, strengthen European security cooperation and contemplate a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, they need to bring voters on board. They may worry about citizen ...

One of the first session themes of the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in November, attended by representatives of all 54 African states, may surprise many: ...

The tenth annual Three Seas Initiative (3SI) took place in Warsaw at the end of April. The platform, established in 2016 by 12 EU member states with shared Iron Curtain experience, aims to foster ...

To nobody’s surprise, the US and Iran are back at war. After Washington launched a new series of strikes on Iran on July 8th, the two are exchanging fire on assets across the Gulf. Once again, ...

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the ...

Mardi 17 novembre 2015, la France a formellement invoqué l’article 42.7 du Traité sur l’Union européenne. Les experts de l’ECFR expliquent ce que cela implique. Qu’est-ce que l’article 42.7 ?