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Germany needs more recruits—can a new government campaign help?

EU TA | AP Insight - August 28, 2025.

Germany's leaders launched a drive to attract more people into voluntary military service as the country scrambles to strengthen its armed forces in the face...

France’s political chaos reflects growing European instability

EU Ferry Biedermann - August 28, 2025.

Europe’s political stability received another blow this week when France’s Prime Minister, François Bayrou, announced a confidence vote for 8 September. Some of the European Union’s...

Federal Europe – an idea that is re-emerging

EU The Editorial Board - August 24, 2025.

The European Union is encountering challenges that are testing its long-term sustainability. The war in Ukraine, the growing dependence on the American security umbrella and the...

Should the EU expand to the north?

EU Roderick Kefferpütz - Villy Søvndal - August 16, 2025.

“There are 12 countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in April. Commission...

Offshore borders of Europe - why the project in Albania will not survive

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - August 16, 2025.

When Italy decided to shift part of the burden of the migrant crisis to Albania two years ago, the project was presented as pragmatic and...

The EU’s Serbian shame

Eastern Europe Ferry Biedermann - August 14, 2025.

Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić reminds me in many ways of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Not only for the way he runs a clientelist state around an...

Has US-style culture-war politics come to Germany?

EU Jan-Werner Mueller - August 13, 2025.

Something just broke in Germany. A highly respected jurist whom the governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated to sit on the country’s constitutional court has...

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