On 11 February, an article entitled Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis was published on the Politico online newspaper’s website – dedicated to the idea of overcoming the EU’s economic lag by deepening its federalization and building it into the global economy.

Europe’s China policy is being rewritten by events it does not control. This report maps the geopolitical forces pushing Brussels from naïve engagement toward guarded competition, and exposes how slow, divided and reactive the shift remains. As rivalry hardens, Europe talks tougher but still struggles to turn awareness into leverage.

A report by Sofia Romansky, a strategic analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), assesses the influence of AI on the military domain. According to the author, the acceleration provided by AI will be a crucial decision-making advantage for commanders in the battlefield.

In a RUSI report, experts Elijah Glantz and Dr. Pia Hüsch analyze the establishment of the UK National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Policing (Police.AI). The authors discuss the technological risks: outdated databases, incompatible systems, and past projects’ failures. Yet the key threats stay beyond the discussion.

Anthropic PBC, a U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) startup, recently found Chinese State‑sponsored hackers to have manipulated Claude Code, an Anthropic AI orchestration tool, in order to carry out a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting some 30 organizations worldwide.

On 8 February 2026, the Middle East Eye website posted an article by Marco Carnelos, a former Italian diplomat who had mainly served in the Middle East. The publication analyzes the causes and consequences of a speech made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the 2026 forum in Davos and shows the context of the global processes and the possible consequences of the changes.

The commentary dissects Emmanuel Macron’s latest defence spending commitments and finds a familiar French pattern – bold announcements masking hard questions left unanswered. Paris talks about resolve, leadership and strategic autonomy. The paper argues that behind the headline figures sit delivery risks, budget trade-offs and capability gaps that money alone will not fix.

In February 2026, the German Council on Foreign Relations published an article entitled Global Reordering, German Responses. Its authors, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Dr. Kira Vinke, analyze Germany’s role and place in the contemporary world where three global superpowers are building their spheres of influence.

The analysis takes aim at one of Europe’s proudest achievements and finds it stuck in a loop of constant tinkering with diminishing returns. The single market is endlessly “restarted,” updated and expanded on paper, yet its core problems remain stubbornly unresolved. The piece argues that Europe has mistaken perpetual reform for real integration, and the costs are piling up.

Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has published an article in which he examines the political phenomenon of the ‘new right’. Some believe them to be people nostalgic for the past, but the author concludes it is no longer the case.