Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector

French President Emmanuel Macron made a milestone statement in his recent speech about nuclear deterrence. For the first time in history he offered to deploy the French strategic air forces to European countries.

The Belgian town of Berlaymont with the headquarters of the European Commission, the European Union’s supreme executive authority, and the Glass Palace from which the NATO bloc is managed are just five kilometers apart.

European governments have announced ambitions to significantly build up their military space assets in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war and Europe’s overdependence on the United States in the space domain.

You can’t quarrel with Russia and the USA at once and cherish a hope for some mythical ‘cavalry from behind the hill’ that will come and help. It is not cavalry that will come but people accustomed to surviving in deserts and wastelands – into which Europe will inevitably turn without an industry and agriculture of its own. For the sake of its own survival.

Hungary enters the spring of 2026 in a state of mounting socio-economic uncertainty as parliamentary elections loom on 12 April. For the first time in sixteen years, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz government face a serious political challenge from the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar.

An article entitled Energiepreis-Schock: Was eine resiliente Energiewende leisten muss, dealing with the challenges of the energy transition amid soaring energy prices, was posted on the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s website on 13 March.

On 12 March, an article entitled The Iran War: A Test Case for Germany’s Credibility by David Jalilvand and Stefan Meister, working for the German Council on Foreign Relations, was posted on the website of the Internationale Politik Quarterly journal. It discusses Germany’s issues and opportunities in connection with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran.

On 11 March, an article by senior research fellow Nadia Schadlow, entitled The limits of global governance, was posted on the website of the Hudson Institute. The article deals with the State’s changing role amid the new reality in international relations.

The commentary delivers a brutal diagnosis of how Europe now talks about itself – and why it is doing real damage. Europe’s leaders increasingly frame the EU as helpless, late and outmatched, not because it is always true, but because humiliation has become a communications strategy. The piece argues that this habit, meant to shock publics into accepting reforms or sacrifices, is backfiring badly.