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DECODING: Germany and Its Defense — A Giant Still Learning to Walk
It took the courage of a deputy minister to say what diplomats had been avoiding for months. Nils Schmid, parliamentary state secretary at the…
EDITORIAL: Europe's Heatwave and Iran's Fossils — The West Trapped Between Fire and Oil
On June 25, 2026, as 101 million Europeans suffocated under temperatures exceeding 35°C, supertankers were cautiously resuming their route through the Strait of Hormuz…
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…
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…
NARRATIVE: France Breaks Its All-Time Heat Record — When Paris Becomes Seville in June 2026
On June 23, 2026, the meteorological station at Pissos, in the Landes, recorded 44.3 degrees Celsius. On the same day, the national thermal indicator…
OPINION: F126 Cancelled, SCAF Buried, Pensions Delayed — Germany Learning Hardship at Full Speed
In a single week of June 2026, Germany absorbed three consecutive shocks that say something essential about its relationship with power: the cancellation of…
COLUMN: Retirement at 70 in Germany — Merz Bets His Career on a Reform Nobody Wants
Germany has just been handed a ticking time bomb in the form of 33 recommendations from a government pension commission. Presented on June 23,…
OPEN LETTER: To the European Commission — WhatsApp does not belong to Meta alone
Commissioner, on June 9, 2026, you made a decision that few institutions in the world would have dared to make. You ordered Meta Platforms…