India-EU Strategic Partnership, Still A Long Way To Go
The year 2026 started on a high note for EU-India relations. The January-27 agreements on the EU-India FTA, on the Security and Defence Partnership, and on Mobility signalled a deepening […]
Publications
Does Europe Pay Too Little For Its Medicines?
In 2025 the American president signed an executive order on ‘Most Favoured Nation’ prices (MFN), asserting that Americans ‘should not be forced to subsidize low-cost prescription drugs and biologics in […]
EU’s New Arctic Strategy: A Resolute Rendez-vous with Reality
The EU is part of the Arctic, and the Arctic is part of the EU – a reality already recognised in its 2021 Arctic Policy. This is not a dogmatic […]
The Three Swords of Damocles: Why Ukraine and Europe Must Break Free from US Dependency
If Trump calls Putin, the Ukrainians must expect the worst. A year ago, Putin rang Trump whilst the Ukrainian President Zelensky was on a plane bound for Washington. In Ukraine’s […]
Why NATO Needs a Flexible Response Strategy, Again
In many NATO capitals, the policy debate on nuclear deterrence is intensifying. This is no surprise. The nuclear saber-rattling that has accompanied Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has offered Western […]
Memoranda of Understanding? Minilateral Defence Frameworks and Avoiding the Fragmentation of European Defence
Europe’s defence architecture is becoming increasingly complex precisely at the moment when greater coherence is most needed. The amount of new minilateral defence frameworks established and developed in the last […]