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For most European civil servants, communicating with their American counterparts in the Trump era is a totally new…

The nauseating sight of the American envoy Steve Witkoff fawning on Vladimir Putin this weekend should have been a shock.…

This week the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a landmark judgment in the case…

European leaders need no encouragement to enjoy the summer sun. They should make the most of favourable political…

With every new cycle of diplomacy between the West and Moscow, the strategy seems to rest on a…

A week after 12 EU member states pressured the European Commission into pausing the bloc’s methane import rules,…

Oh no, please, not another tedious attempt to restructure the EU’s institutions. Europe’s very visible foreign policy weaknesses…

There’s been much chatter in the Brussels Bubble of late about possible tweaks – or bigger reforms still…

Geopolitics leaves little room for sentiment. The blunt truth for US allies in Europe and Asia is that…

The US and Iran now have a peace deal. But one front in the war stayed open, and…

Europeans find themselves paying the price for a catastrophic failure of statesmanship. The violent reverberations of the unlawful…

On 23 April, the European Union adopted its 20th package of sanctions against Russia and approved a €90bn…

Why is the courage lacking to stand up to Trump? French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wartime writings offer a clue – EUobserver