The EU’s Global Gateway strategy rests on the premise that development cooperation and the EU’s own geostrategic interests can be mutually reinforcing. Genuine synergies do exist: a renewable energy p...

Europe’s push for digital sovereignty faces a fundamental challenge: building the capacity to deliver the infrastructure it wants to control. Nicholas Gates, Chloe Teevan, Emrys Schoemaker, Krisstina ...

The upcoming EU-India free trade agreement offers a transformative opportunity to build resilience in the face of US and Chinese tech dominance. Gautam Kamath, Chloe Teevan and Alfonso Medinilla argue...

China sells geopolitics as development. Europe tries to sell development as geopolitics.

The multiannual financial framework (MFF) is the EU’s long-term budget, shaping its priorities at home and its influence abroad over a seven-year period. While the current €1.2 trillion framework runs...

Mateo Martínez Zubillaga argues that making agricultural trade more inclusive and sustainable requires closer cooperation between FAO and WTO. He explores how stronger policy coordination and practica...

Sara Gianesello and Giacomo Arosio argue that EU-NATO engagement in the Indo-Pacific is fragmented rather than strategic, with both institutions moving in parallel with the same partners. The upcoming...

The steel sector alone accounts for roughly 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions. If the world is serious about hitting climate targets, emissions from this heavy industry must fall by at least 50% b...

Notes from our 40th anniversary celebrations.