Since the 1970s, the European Commission has been striving to strengthen economic ties between the European Union and China. In the beginning, the EU supported the global integration of China, but by the early 2010s it became clear that these hopes did not come true. Instead, China grew to become a Great Power and its protectionism in the economic policy led to a number of structural problems for the EU.

The population of the European Union is getting older at an accelerating rate. The number of elderly people is growing in all the countries of the continent, with their birth rates falling just as rapidly. A low-probable or, more precisely, almost non-existent prospect of the latter’s recovery actually leaves the EU countries with just one way to mitigate the economic consequences of ageing: to get increasingly addicted to the migration drug. The costs of flirting with migrants are now evident to everyone in Europe.

The policy brief by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael is an internal strategic document aimed at moving the system of control over adherence to ideological guidelines and political decisions from the realm of political negotiations to the field of technocratic regulation. The authors of the study focus on systemic weaknesses of the key mechanism - the annual EU Rule of Law report.

A report by the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) inquires into the vulnerabilities of the European wind power industry in the face of Chinese expansion.

Migration has long shaped the demographic and economic realities of the Western Balkans, and Germany has become the principal migratory destination.

Numbers do not lie. Military spending of the EU member states has been growing for 4 years now. Since 2022, they have spent twice as much on defence as in the previous four years.

On 3 December 2025, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs published an article by Daniel S. Hamilton, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.