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COLUMN: The Fed and ECB in Tightening Mode — The West Absorbs the Financial Cost of Its Conflicts
On June 11, 2026, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% — its first hike…
COMMENTARY: The Moldovan-European Summit of June 22 — A Small Nation Refusing to Bend Under Russia's Shadow
When Moldovan President Maia Sandu arrived at the Europa Building in Brussels on June 22, 2026 for the second EU-Moldova summit, the context was…
DECODING: Green Credits in the Big Beautiful Bill — How Trump Is Dismantling Biden's IRA
Since President Donald Trump called the clean energy tax credits included in the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill a "giant SCAM"…
ESSAY: Nipah, Shigella, Mpox — Why Kerala Is the World's Epicenter of Emerging Zoonoses
In June 2026, Kerala — one of India's most educated, best-served medically and most prosperous states — found itself simultaneously grappling with two distinct…
REPORT: Crimea Runs Dry — Ukrainian Strikes Strangle Russian Logistics
In the night of June 20 to 21, 2026, the streets of Sevastopol went dark. Pro-Kremlin governor Mikhail Razvozhayev ordered the shutdown of streetlights…
EDITORIAL: AI Models Are Strategic Weapons — Welcome to the Digital Iron Curtain
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce sent a letter to Anthropic's headquarters: two language models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, had…
OPEN LETTER: To you, the Europeans paying the bill for the Iran war
According to data published by Bloomberg on June 26, 2026, inflation in the eurozone may have reached 3.0% in June — a first slowdown…
EDITORIAL: The Big Beautiful Bill at 51-49 — the Senate on the Trumpian razor's edge
Late in the night of Saturday June 28, 2026, after a vote held open for more than four hours in a tension that gripped…
COMMENTARY: Meta versus Brussels over WhatsApp — the duel redefining the AI market
On June 9, 2026, the European Commission adopted a historic interim measures decision: it ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for competing…