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Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s second election win have transformed the context of EU-UK relations, a new poll by ECFR shows. The prevailing public view in Britain and major EU ...

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Surging global demand for critical raw materials has strengthened the bargaining power of resource-rich African countries. They are introducing new local content obligations for foreign mining ...

Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the country’s presidential election on the eve of the second round, citing electoral process compromise due to foreign interference, based on declassified ...

Opposition is mounting in European Union capitals about the trade agreement which European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, signed on Friday with Mercosur, the South American trade bloc. In ...

Friedrich Merz’s long and winding journey towards the German chancellery is a tale of the federal republic’s past and present. Marinated in the determinedly pro-European, pro-Western politics of ...