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I recently returned from Europe, where I spent eight days speaking with business leaders, senior government officials and journalists across Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. The picture on the ground is worse than America understands.…

At a time when many think that China has the upper hand in controlling important “choke points” that prevent Trump from taking counteractions against Chinese mercantilism and attempts to undermine US economic and political leadership, my…

Europe wants to decarbonize without de-industrializing, but the old tools are no longer enough. With the Commission’s legislative proposal of march 2026, called the Industrial Accelerator Act, “Made in Europe” becomes a pillar of EU…

In late 2025, France’s Army Chief of Staff, General Fabien Mandon, informed parliament of what few European governments were willing to say publicly: France should prepare for a major war with Russia within three to four years. The planning…

Every crisis is a mirror and, in 2026, the European Union is finally forced to see itself. During the springtime of this already quite eventful year, the EU is neither in open crisis nor in calm, but in state of suspension. We are in a…