It’s funny how history repeats itself. Yet again, we see another defence initiative of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, being nixed by the European Union (EU) member states. This time, on September 1, she sought the creation of an independent expert group that would gather senior political and military officials to directly propose new ideas to boost European defence capabilities and fight against external threats. As one might

The Dayton Agreement, created by the 1995 agreement between Bosnian wartime leaders that ended the Bosnian war, was never meant to last. The Agreement affirmed peace and a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts: the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and mainly Croat-Bosniak-populated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The system created was intended to be temporary, in place until a new constitution was agreed upon by the three

Britain is about to launch its first rocket from home soil. So why does a new House of Lords report say the UK is losing the space race before it's even begun?

Transnistria's secessionist project is in structural decline. Russian patronage has thinned and public services have deteriorated. The Sheriff conglomerate, the dominant economic force in the region, has reoriented toward European markets in ways that sit uneasily alongside Moscow's strategic preferences. Chișinău, meanwhile, has been methodically exploiting this opening, using customs duties, tax harmonisation, and a nascent reintegration blueprint to draw Transnistria incre

The BBC has increasingly found itself under fire over the last few years, with right-wing media and politicians alike finding every possible opportunity to lambast the public-service broadcaster for perceived left-wing bias. Until his departure in the summer , Gary Lineker often drew much of the media’s ire for his outspoken political views, culminating in his earlier-than-planned exit from the UK’s national public service broadcaster. Now, remarkably, the U.S. President is a

Eighteen months after our first interview , Europinion sat down once more with Daniel Jackson, the President of the self-declared Free Republic of Verdis, to reflect on how this ambitious micronational project has evolved. Jackson speaks candidly about Verdis’s shifting geopolitical environment, the pressures of sustaining a self-declared state, and the challenges posed by its location on the contested margins between Croatia and Serbia. A central focus of the conversation is

The EU should seize the momentum. The results of Moldova’s parliamentary elections demonstrate a decisive political shift. Pro-Russian...

Pre-election analysis of disinformation, crackdowns, interference, and oligarchic politics in the tense run-up to Moldova’s 2025 legislative elections. Moldova is on the brink of a pivotal parliamentary election scheduled for tomorrow (28 September), a vote widely seen as a fateful choice between integration with Europe or a return to Russia’s orbit. In the final week before this high-stakes election, the country of 2.6 million has experienced anything but calm. All those I

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion There’s no other way of putting it. Donald Trump has made an irreversible blunder on tariffs. ...