Europe is burning, and Chatham House says Britain’s new government cannot treat this as another summer emergency. Record heatwaves, drought and wildfires have exposed a harsh truth: climate adaptation is still treated as a side issue when it should be at the centre of economic policy, public investment and foreign policy.

Europe has a banking problem it can no longer hide. Howard Davies’ Project Syndicate commentary points to a brutal comparison: the five biggest listed EU banks together are worth less on the stock market than America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase.

Europe keeps treating migration as a border problem. The RIEAS research paper says that is now dangerously outdated. The real pressure starts much further south – in the Sahel, Central Africa, Sudan and Libya – where jihadist violence, coups, state collapse, organised crime, climate stress and foreign meddling are feeding displacement long before people reach the Mediterranean.

Europe wants to break its dangerous dependence on China for the raw materials behind batteries, wind turbines, chips and weapons. The EUISS brief argues that enlargement partners – especially Ukraine and the Western Balkans – could help by supplying critical minerals that Europe badly needs for the green transition, digital industry and rearmament.

Europe is tightening migration policy just as its ageing economies need migrants more than ever. The Internationale Politik essay argues that the continent has trapped itself in a dangerous contradiction: it wants control at the border, but it also needs people to fill labour shortages, support growth and keep welfare systems alive.

France’s unemployment problem is creeping back – and the Institut Montaigne interview makes clear why politicians should stop pretending this is just a statistical blip. For the first time since 2021, unemployment has moved above 8 percent, with 2.6 million people affected.

Europe is facing a new cyber threat that its rulebooks are not built to handle. The Carnegie Europe paper warns that autonomous AI agents are moving into cyberspace as tools that can scan, reason, adapt and act with far less human supervision than traditional software.