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❗️ Turkey has become an embedded outsider: a middle power that builds strategic autonomy from inside the Western system. Europe should stop trying to resolve the contradiction and learn to capitalise on it. 🔗 buff.ly/3yqq2SK

An outsider within: The paradox of the Europe-Turkey relationship – European Council on Foreign...

Turkey is neither drifting away from the West nor is it coming home. It has become an embedded outsider: a middle power that has learned to build strategic auto

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🎧️ In the latest podcast episode, we discussed the European debate around the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). 🔗 buff.ly/hAVArF7
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European policymakers need a programme that aims directly at fossil fuel displacement, not just clean energy addition. A targeted trade-in programme could do the job, writes @noah_gordon_ buff.ly/nZmaifn

Van guard: How Europe can kick its global diesel dependence – European Council on Foreign Relations

A scrappage scheme for diesel vans could cut emissions and ease the geopolitical dependencies pushing up costs for Europeans

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While we in the rest of Europe must prepare as best we can to defend ourselves against every kind of hybrid attack, the central thrust of our response should be to redouble our support for Ukraine, writes @fromTGA @ECFREuropeanSec buff.ly/9p5xDHK

The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine – European...

Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong

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Europe won’t out-build America on AI data centres. But it should get ahead in pricing and financing its compute capacity 👇️ buff.ly/279Ti1k

Tomorrow’s market today: Why Europe needs to invest in AI compute – European Council on Foreign...

Europe won’t out-build America on AI data centres. But it should get ahead in pricing and financing its compute capacity

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A Europe that depends on America for chips, cloud and the price of compute has little leverage left in trade and technology talks, writes @IvoProkopiev. @ECFRPower ecfr.eu/article/tomorrows-ma…

Tomorrow’s market today: Why Europe needs to invest in AI compute – European Council on Foreign...

Europe won’t out-build America on AI data centres. But it should get ahead in pricing and financing its compute capacity

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Jeremy Cliffe@JeremyCliffeOct 21
Le Pen currently ahead of every current prospective challenger in 2nd round of next year's presidential election ⬇️
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France, Ifop poll: Presidential run-off election Le Pen (RN-PfE): 68% (+1) Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 32% (-1) Le Pen (RN-PfE): 57% (+2) Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 43% (-2) Le Pen (RN-PfE): 59% (+5) Hollande (PS-S&D): 41% (-5) Le Pen (RN-PfE): 58% (+4) Attal (RE-RE): 42% (-4) Le Pen (RN-PfE): 56% (+4) Philippe (HOR-RE): 44% (-4) +/- vs. 24-25 August 2026 Fieldwork: 17-20 October 2026 Sample size: 1,928 ➤ europeelects.eu/2026/06/02/p…
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Update! 🗓️ 29 October - 09:30-13:30 CET 📍@ComisionEuropea, Madrid (In-person) How can Europe secure cleaner, more affordable and more reliable energy? Which external dependencies can it accept, and where does it need greater control? 📝 Register here ⬇️ @ECFRMadrid ecfr.eu/event/towards-a-new-…

Towards a new European energy architecture – European Council on Foreign Relations

Europe’s future depends on the energy choices it makes today. Can Europe secure cleaner, more affordable and more reliable energy, and build the infrastructure

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1/4 How should Europe address the challenge of demographic change?👇️ The paper by @Alberto_Rizzi_ focuses on a simple question: what does Europe’s shrinking and ageing population mean for its economic weight, security and global influence? 🧵 buff.ly/FloyOqQ

Markets, migrants, microchips: European power in a world of demographic change – European Council...

European policymakers should take the long view on demographic change, strengthening Europe’s place in the world through stronger international partnerships, th

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3/4 The paper argues that Europe should respond on several fronts: bring more women, young and older people into the workforce, make better use of technology, and treat deeper single-market integration and enlargement as part of the demographic answer.
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4/4 Europe will also need stronger partnerships with younger, faster-growing regions. That means more investment in education and skills abroad, closer economic ties, and expanded legal migration channels to support Europe’s future workforce.
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1/4 Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europe has transformed its energy diplomacy. The EU sharply reduced its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and secured new supplies around the world. But important vulnerabilities remain. buff.ly/vJ3YHkk

Electric collective: Europe’s clean energy future without Russia – European Council on Foreign...

The EU and member states must agree a high-level energy diplomacy framework and complete the phase-out of Russian fossil fuels.

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3/4 The next step should be more joint European action writes @szymonkardas. Member states can pool demand, coordinate negotiations and use their collective weight to secure better deals — while putting clean energy, hydrogen and CRM at the centre of future partnerships.
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4/4 Europe has become better at managing energy crises. It now needs to get ahead of the next one. That means completing the phase-out of Russian fossil fuels, concluding more binding clean-energy agreements and building a common EU energy diplomacy framework.
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Naturally the riots in 🇫🇷 are big in the news, but it looks fairly volatile in 🇦🇱 as well. Protests have been going on for weeks, and they certainly don’t look like calming down.
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🎧 How the EU budget is put together, and why this round is proving so hard to close. Can the two camps find common ground? Where do negotiations stand today, and what could help clear the way to an agreement? 👇️ buff.ly/hAVArF7

Europe’s next budget fight – European Council on Foreign Relations

Mark Leonard welcomes Guntram Wolf and Pierre Heilbronn to discuss what’s at stake for Europe in the EU budget negotiations

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1/4 Europe’s AI ambitions are colliding with its energy transition, writes @MatsEngstrom. Data centres, green hydrogen, heat pumps and EVs are all competing for electricity and grid access, with a tremendous projected supply gap 🧵 buff.ly/oWqcGrU

Why half-measures won’t solve Europe’s data-centre energy crisis – European Council on Foreign...

Demand for electricity and grid access is surging as AI and data centres expand. European policymakers must urgently set energy-performance standards and keep t

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3/4@MatsEngstrom argues that voluntary measures are not enough. The EU should introduce binding energy-performance standards for data centres, improve transparency on their electricity use, and give strategic industrial decarbonisation faster access to the grid.
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4/4 Europe does not have to choose between digitalisation and decarbonisation. But it needs to coordinate them by making AI and data centres more energy efficient while protecting the power needed for Europe’s wider green transition.
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