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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opening shots: What to make of the European Defence Industrial Strategy The European Commission’s new defence industrial strategy sets out to strengthen the EU’s defence industry through common and ...

Donald Trump’s appeasement of Vladimir Putin makes Neville Chamberlain look like a principled, courageous realist. At least Chamberlain was trying to prevent a major European war, whereas Trump is ...

In mid-March, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez confidently asserted to his European allies that Russia will not “bring its troops across the Pyrenees.” This sentiment echoes a European belief ...

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 ...

In June 2025, concerns partly over Iran’s advancing nuclear programme triggered American and Israeli military action despite no clear evidence that Iran had decided to weaponise and posed an imminent ...

The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union has a problem with power. While its hard-power deficit has recently moved to the centre of attention, its philosophical and political shortcomings are ...

The draft US peace plan to end Russia’s war on Ukraine appeases many Russian demands. Yet Moscow will likely still find the deal unacceptable ...