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<title>NATO’s Ankara Bargain: Europe Pays Up, America Steps Back</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[OSW’s analysis turns the Ankara NATO summit into a hard lesson in burden shifting. Europe and Canada arrived with more spending, new procurement, bigger industrial plans and a promise to carry more of the continent’s defence.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Carnegie’s paper warns that the nuclear danger is no longer just about who has the bomb. The more awkward problem is the growing zone just below it – states building the ability to go nuclear fast while denying they have crossed the line.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The CSIS Eurofile episode uses David Marsh’s new book to ask a harsher question than whether Europe can keep existing.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Megabank Trap: Deregulation Is the Wrong Escape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bruegel’s working paper lands in the middle of Europe’s latest competitiveness panic. Big EU banks want relief, US rules are being loosened, and Brussels is under pressure to respond.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[InfoSecurity24’s report turns Spain’s migrant regularisation drive into a sharp warning for Europe. Madrid expected roughly half a million people to use the scheme.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Energy Trap: Clean Power, Dirty Dependence</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Geopolitical Futures’ graphic shows the energy transition turning into a hard geopolitical race. Clean energy is now pulling in almost twice as much global investment as fossil fuels, but this is not a neat green victory lap.]]></description>
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<title>MAGA’s Europe Project Cracks: The Damage Remains</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Carnegie Europe debate carried by CER cuts through the theatre of the Meloni-Trump spat. Italy’s prime minister may have pushed back against Donald Trump, but this is not a clean break with the transatlantic hard right.]]></description>
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<title>NATO’s Europe Problem: America May Step Back</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RUSI’s Newsbrief delivers a cold security message for the decade ahead. Europe can no longer treat US protection as a permanent safety net, no matter how often leaders praise alliance unity.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Aid Retreat: Defence Rises, Influence Falls</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RUSI’s commentary delivers a sharp security warning for Europe. Governments are pouring more money into defence, but quietly cutting the slower tools that stop crises before they hit Europe’s doorstep.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Defence Mess: More Money, Same Fragmentation</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament briefing lays out a blunt problem at the heart of EU defence. Europe is spending more, planning more and launching more instruments – but still buys weapons like 27 separate countries protecting 27 separate industrial comfort zones.]]></description>
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