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<title>Eurasia’s Power Grab Hits a Wall – and Europe Is Still Exposed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A fresh scramble for influence is under way across Eurasia, but no new superpower bloc is ready to replace the US-led order. China, Russia, India and Turkey all want more room to manoeuvre, yet each is boxed in by rivalries, economic limits and clashing strategic interests.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany’s old image as Europe’s stable, wealthy anchor is cracking fast. Friedrich Merz is struggling with dire approval ratings, infighting inside his CDU and an economy that has barely grown for six years. Meanwhile, the AfD is closing in on real political power as mainstream parties fail to offer voters a convincing route out.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe wants sovereign satellites, secure communications, stronger defence constellations and less dependence on foreign space giants. The RFI report shows the brutal catch: by 2030, the continent may not have enough rockets to launch what it says it needs.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe’s extreme weather is no longer just an environmental problem. The Modern Diplomacy analysis argues that wildfires, floods, droughts and heatwaves are becoming a direct threat to public budgets – and governments are still treating them too much like one-off emergencies.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact was supposed to show that Europe had finally built a tougher, clearer and more predictable system. Then Ceuta happened. The EPC analysis argues that the Spanish enclave has become the first real stress test of the post-Pact era – and the early signs are not reassuring.]]></description>
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<title>NATO’s Infrastructure Blind Spot: Russia Knows Where Europe Is Weak</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[NATO is preparing for war with Russia, but CEPA warns that one of the Alliance’s biggest vulnerabilities sits outside the traditional battlefield. Europe’s ports, railways, energy grids, undersea cables, pipelines, satellite links and digital networks are now part of deterrence – and too many remain exposed.]]></description>
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<title>Greece’s Defence Bet: Europe’s Southern Flank Gets Serious</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Greece is no longer just buying French weapons. The ISDP brief argues that Athens is becoming a test case for Europe’s defence pillar – a country using French arms, French political guarantees and deeper industrial cooperation to build deterrence in the Eastern Mediterranean.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is safer than it was during the 2022 gas panic – but TEPSA warns that safer does not mean secure. The EU has cut Russian gas, diversified suppliers, filled storage more professionally and accelerated clean-energy deployment. That is real progress.]]></description>
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<title>Germany’s Army Dream Hits The Manpower Wall</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany says it wants to build Europe’s strongest conventional army. The World Politics Review analysis warns that Berlin is still nowhere near proving it can turn that promise into soldiers, units and real wartime capacity.]]></description>
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<title>Germany’s Rearmament Test: Berlin Has Money, But Still Lacks Grip</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany has published the first military strategy in the Bundeswehr’s history – and the FPRI analysis treats it as both a milestone and a warning. Berlin is finally admitting that Russia is the central threat, that territorial defence is back, and that Germany must become a serious military actor at the heart of NATO.]]></description>
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