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.*
Moscow has been dialing up its hybrid attacks on European democracies. Are information operations the most effective tool in Russia’s arsenal—and how can European governments and societies fight back?
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.
The EU’s fragmented approaches to the crises of climate change, conflict, and democracy fall short by not addressing the mutually reinforcing links between them. Brussels needs an integrated strategy to tackle the emerging three-way nexus and mitigate the vulnerabilities it creates.
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?
Rym Momtaz, Sophia Besch, and Christopher Shell discuss how Donald Trump’s victory might reshape transatlantic relations.
Faced with Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his threat to transatlantic relations, the EU is woefully ill-equipped to act swiftly on foreign policy and security issues. An EU Security Council would go a long way in empowering it to respond more effectively.