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The US and China are diverging on their approaches to energy policy, and in Europe we risk being stuck in the middle

01 July 2025

The Electric Age - a new energy Cold War?

Regime change in Iran is still not firmly taken off the table - there are some eery parallels to Iraq

25 June 2025

Be careful what you wish for Iran

I used to support eurobonds, but no longer do because the only ones on offer are of the toxic variety

19 June 2025

A Lost Hamiltonian Moment

Mette Fredriksen's government and its anti-immigration policies may look like an example to other social democrats, but the reality is more complicated.

09 June 2025

Can the left win by turning against immigration?

Benjamin Netanyahu's latest operation in Gaza won't serve Israel's long-term security. Nor does it serve European interests.

02 June 2025

A matter of principle – and interest

A cautionary tale of how the world's most inspiring political project went wrong

22 May 2025

A Debt Crisis, a Pandemic, and a Dictator

The 80th anniversary of VE day marks a point where a new generation will have no direct connections to those who fought in the biggest conflict in world history;

12 May 2025

From memory into history

The French president is taking a big risk with his Middle Eastern diplomacy.

05 May 2025

Macron's gamble on Palestine

Global oil markets may find themselves squeezed between the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs and China's long-term desire to reduce its own imports;

08 April 2025

An oil market crash like no other

Mark Rutte is right, Europe needs to think about the post-war relationship with Russia

17 March 2025

Is Europe ready for peace?

The era of global macro imbalances is over – but we are not equipped to deal with this.

07 March 2025

Europe’s bigger dependency

The British political class's continuing obsession with the US says less about geopolitics, and more about its relationship to power

21 February 2025

Can the UK quit the US?

Donald Trump’s transactional foreign policy marks the end of foreign aid as we know it

07 February 2025

The price of everything

Trump is our best hope now in Ukraine. How did we get there?

07 January 2025

Waiting for Trump

Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron are both close to Donald Trump. Could this be the basis of an unlikely alliance?

19 December 2024

How Trump will divide us

Brexit had a much a bigger effect on the EU than it did on the UK because it changed power relationships

11 December 2024

What Brexit did to the EU

The German chancellor failed because he is weak in character and intellect

03 December 2024

Rise and Fall of Olaf Scholz

Allowing western missiles to strike targets deep in Russia will not change the war. Time to cut a deal.

28 November 2024

Trump is right on Ukraine

The Europeans will repeat the same mistakes they made in 2016 - and add some more.

20 November 2024

How to live with Donald Trump

Ukraine is in such a mess because western experts underestimated Russia on many levels. Now they are underestimating the Brics+.

05 November 2024

Don't underestimate the Brics