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<title>Germany and America Are Losing Touch with Reality – And Europe Could Pay the Price</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany’s political establishment is losing voters while Washington risks misreading the war in Ukraine. Holger Friedrich, writing in The National Interest, argues that both crises spring from the same dangerous failure – political elites increasingly trust their own assumptions rather than confront evidence that contradicts them.]]></description>
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<title>Germany’s Intelligence Crisis: A Spy Scandal Threatens Berlin’s Security Overhaul</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany is trying to rebuild its intelligence capabilities just as a scandal involving a former spy chief threatens to derail the effort. The arrest of August Hanning, former president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has exposed serious questions about the protection of classified information and the agency's internal safeguards.]]></description>
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<title>France’s Debt Trap Is Tightening: Paris Could Become Too Big to Rescue</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France is running out of room to escape its public-finance crisis. With the deficit reaching 5.4% of GDP and public debt approaching 120%, rising borrowing costs are turning years of fiscal complacency into an increasingly dangerous liability.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Ceuta Crisis Exposes a Dangerous Blind Spot: Brussels Cannot Tell Who Is Behind Migrant Surges</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe faces a new border-security dilemma after around 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta enclave in just two days. An EPC discussion paper warns that social media can accelerate mass migration movements faster than authorities can establish who is responsible.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Radical Right Is Rising – And the EU’s Double Standards Are Fuelling the Backlash</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe’s political establishment keeps warning younger voters about the horrors of fascism, but those warnings are losing their force. In a sharp CIDOB commentary, Francis Ghilès argues that the growing appeal of radical-right parties in France, Germany and Italy cannot simply be blamed on fading memories of the Second World War.]]></description>
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<title>UN Climate Alarm Under Fire: Pregnancy Risks Spark a New Fight Over Global Funding</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations has put pregnant women and newborn babies at the centre of its latest climate warning – and an Austrian commentator is accusing it of turning a serious health concern into another argument for massive international spending.]]></description>
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<title>Von der Leyen’s Power Grab Meets Reality: Brussels Cannot Govern Europe by Speech Alone</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ursula von der Leyen wants to speak for Europe, reshape its security architecture and even open the EU’s doors to Canada. But a TEPSA analysis warns that the Commission President’s political ambitions are racing ahead of her institutional authority.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Rearmament Gamble: Billions in Defence Spending Could Leave Its Arms Industry Divided</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is preparing a massive military spending drive, but more money does not automatically mean a stronger European defence industry. An IRIS assessment warns that the EU’s ReArm Europe plan could accelerate weapons purchases and expand production without solving the fragmentation that has weakened European military manufacturing for decades.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s World Order Is Collapsing – And Brussels Is Still Playing by Yesterday’s Rules</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The international system Europe helped build is coming apart, but Brussels is struggling to adapt. An ECFR commentary warns that the world is moving beyond familiar rules and institutions into something more dangerous – a global landscape where countries increasingly act without any shared framework.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Rearmament Trap: NATO Builds Its Defences While Western Influence Retreats</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is pouring resources into military rearmament, but a dangerous gap is opening beyond NATO’s borders. A RIEAS analysis warns that Washington’s dismantling of USAID is weakening Western influence across Africa, Asia and fragile states just as China and Russia expand their presence.]]></description>
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