Agribusiness Atlas shows how growing market concentration and corporate capture in the food industry are enriching a small minority while harming health and the climate

What von der Leyen’s State of the Union says about the state of EU foreign and security policy.

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The state election reflects a deep-seated division. The far right narrowly missed securing the absolute majority it had sought, thereby triggering a political earthquake. Forming a government is likel...

Iceland has voted against reopening EU accession negotiations on 29 August 2026. Kikka Sigurðardóttir, Leader of the Icelandic Greens Græningjar, explains what really drove the 52.8% referendum result...

The new British prime minister is a far better communicator than Keir Starmer. But we have little idea of his thinking about the world beyond Britain, says Ros Taylor. For the moment, Andy Burnham’s p...

The European Commission suggests a new electrification target, doubling the share of electrons in the EU final energy consumption by the year 2040. Can it energise a common EU energy policy again to p...

The European Commission is about to reveal its revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the cornerstone of European climate policy. Since 2005, this cap and trade system has capped greenhous...

Heightened threats to European security, particularly from Russia, and repeated US signalling of its intention to reduce its military footprint in Europe have intensified efforts to strengthen Europe’...

Europe is heavily dependent on US companies for cloud services, AI and digital infrastructure. However, the close ties between Big Tech and politics in the US exacerbate the risks associated with this...

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Who currently owns tech? Are our digital spaces really participatory? A few usual suspects like Meta and Google currently dominate the market, de facto controlling democratic discourse online, even th...

It has forced Keir Starmer to resign. Now the Labour Party is pinning all its hopes on Andy Burnham, a charismatic mayor from Manchester, writes Ros Taylor. It knows the alternative is a far right gov...

Venue: L42 business center & workspaces, Rue de la Loi 42, 1040 BrusselsZVEI, the Electro and Digital Industry Association, and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue are pleased ...

Denmark's Green Party (SF) has just made history, entering government as the country's second-largest party after the March 2026 election reshuffled the Folketing. With five ministers in the new cabin...

From the Digital Services Act to EuroStack, MEP Alexandra Geese argues that Europe's digital sovereignty will not be won by copying US platform models. It requires investment, industrial policy, and t...

The future of Europe's biodiversity may also be decided outside the European Union. In Albania's Narta Lagoon, a conflict over tourism is testing Europe's environmental credibility.

Hydrogen was the future once. But while the UK was quick off the mark in investigating the potential of H2 for heating homes, much of the original plans have been abandoned in favour of solar…

Fragile institutions, deep polarization, and growing pressures on the country's civic identity reveal how much remains unfinished. European integration is Montenegro's decisive chance, not just to clo...

The Arctic is at a geopolitical crossroads. Russia's war on Ukraine has paralysed the Arctic Council, Trump's ambitions over Greenland are fracturing transatlantic trust, and the climate crisis risks ...

Discover how the ECB can supercharge the climate transition by turning its new monetary framework into an engine for green investment.

A new report gives a clear pathway for the ECB to be playing a much bigger role in making the green transition affordable. It suggests alternative steps that would speed up and key actions that are ne...

The election victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party raises hopes for a long-delayed energy transition in Hungary. However, the road ahead is complex – shaped by Russian oil, gas and nuclear dependency,...

Christian Schmidt's resignation as High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina was not a routine handover. It followed intense US pressure, linked to a controversy over the Southern Interconnection ...