Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has significantly expanded its role in the defence industry. More recently, it has also developed a range of new and equally important instruments in the ...

How Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has revitalised the EU enlargement process; critical raw materials in the context of the EU’s green and digital transition; the EU savings and investments u...

What would European defence look like if NATO were to disband or become ineffective? In the latest paper in CEPR's Europe 2050 series, Daniel Fiott (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) treats this as a seriou...

This article analyses how questions about European defence production efforts have been institutionalised at the European Union level, and it does so by drawing on the academic literature on the in...

The case for a U.S. military drawdown.

The European Union (EU) has been developing military mobility, but so far with mixed results. It is time to rethink these efforts by investing more generally in military logistics. With the forthcomin...

Over video conference, ministers of home affairs addressed current developments in Ceuta.

Pope Leo XIV urges European People’s Party lawmakers to reject ideology, rebuild trust with citizens, and pursue a form of politics rooted in the ...

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The EU's 2026 threat assessment demonstrates that while Europe has developed a clearer understanding of its strategic environment, it remains less certain about the political choices required to respo...

Defence instruments funded under the next long-term EU budget should devote more resources to maturing, testing and certifying technologies and bridging the gap between R&D and production, a new repor...

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

The reported scheme to effectively auction off the World Cup could breach EU rules, commissioner warns