An article entitled “The Royal Navy: On Course for National Embarrassment”, about the decline of the British Royal Marine and the causes thereof, was posted on the website of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) on 12 March.

On March 13, 2026, Juraj Majcin, a defence policy expert with the European Policy Centre, published an article How Much Protection Can French Nukes Really Offer? scrutinising Macron’s initiative to set up a common European nuclear umbrella.

Not trust but a belief in words – this is what the French nuclear initiative for Europe aims to elicit. Nick Witney, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), makes this conclusion in his article Under my parapluie: Macron’s nuclear guarantee for Europe published on 17 March, 2026.

Military budgets that increase on paper only, with the missiles running out in reality, are now the true face of the European defense capability. This is what Aleksander Olech, a Polish defense analyst and journalist, writes about in his article entitled France Lacking Missiles in Europe, published on 23 March 2026.

On 23 March a brief by Max Bergmann, Otto Svendsen and Jonathan Burchell, experts of the Europe, Asia and Eurasia program, entitled “Europe Needs an ASAP Program for Air Defense”, was posted on the website of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

On March 26, the European Council on Foreign Relations published on its web-site an article The Gulf on the front line: The end of strategic hedging and new space for Europeans written by Cinzia Bianco, a visiting fellow with the Council specializing in Middle East studies.

On 10 April, an article entitled “The weak point: Why pharmaceutical security belongs at the heart of European defense” was posted on the website of the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). It examines the issues involved in supplying the EU with pharmaceuticals and ingredients for their production and with Europe’s increasing dependence on China in this field.

How EU and Member States’ Regulations Serve to Breed Illegal Migrants

What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?

The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.