As the year draws to a close, experts reflect on the positives of 2024 and share their concerns for 2025.*
As the year draws to a close, experts reflect on the positives of 2024 and share their concerns for 2025.*
Through diplomatic skill and strategy, French President Macron is making a recovery after a series of domestic and international setbacks. He now has a unique opportunity to expand Europe’s margins of maneuver on the global stage.
The EU has vowed to be more receptive of its partners’ needs and concerns. To ensure the “listening to others” mantra does not become a performative quick fix, the union must clarify how this commitment fits with its desire to exert geopolitical power.
Donald Trump’s victory underscores the need for the EU to rethink its political economic model. As it adapts its policies, the union must recognize the trade-offs between its quest for economic security and its global identity as a champion of the rules-based order.
A deep discussion on the implications of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency for Europe.
Donald Trump’s taste for dealmaking will suit some EU members and candidate states more than others.
Support for negotiations toward a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has been growing in the West. Should Kyiv accept a freezing of the contact line and its NATO membership process, and what are the alternate paths to peace?