Commentaries
2025: Is Europe Ready for the Old Normal?
A newly-elected President of the United States who lays claim to Canada, Greenland, and Panama, is far from normal. For Europeans, it is the last thing they expected from their […]
European defence / NATO
Publications
EU Strategy 2025-2029: We Have the Instruments, Now Set the Objectives
The EU is very creative at designing and putting to use instruments. Think of how the European Peace Facility (EPF) became the tool to support Ukraine’s war effort. Other instruments […]
Message from the Eastern Flank: From Celtic Uprise to Dacian Fall
Since February 2022, collective defence has again become the main effort of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after decades of ‘out-of-area’ operations. Consequently, the armed forces of NATO’s member […]
Commentaries
Transatlantic Uncertainty calls for Greater National Responsibility
When Belgium was hit by severe terror attacks in 2016, then-President Obama did not hesitate for a moment to pledge full support: ‘Belgium is a close friend and ally of […]
Commentaries
Ukraine: Europe Refused to Think, Now Trump Will Act
If Trump manages to convince Putin to make a deal on Ukraine (and it remains an “if”), the core of it will probably be: you get to keep what you […]
External publications
China’s Nuclear Shadow Reaches Europe
Many observers of European security still assume that China’s nuclear arsenal build-up does not threaten European interests. Yet as China moves away from a minimalist nuclear force posture, the US must necessarily […]