POLITICO’s report turns Dunkirk into a warning for Europe’s industrial dream. A once-depressed steel and port region in northern France has dragged itself back into the game with batteries, green steel, logistics and heavy investment.

CEPS’s in-depth analysis gives Brussels a sharp warning on digital power. The EU wants Asian tech partners to help it survive the US-China technology squeeze.

RUSI’s paper gives the UK a hard defence-industry warning. Ministers want more weapons, more innovation and more factory capacity, but the public purse is already under strain.

War on the Rocks delivers a ruthless twist on the usual NATO panic. The problem, it argues, is not that Trump is truly abandoning Europe.

IPQ’s commentary gives Brussels a bleak choice on China. Europe wants to de-risk, fix trade imbalances and avoid a trade war all at once. That comfort zone is collapsing.

Ifri’s briefing warns that the Franco-German reset is already running into hard limits. The arrival of Friedrich Merz in Berlin and the Toulon ministerial council were meant to revive Europe’s core political machine.

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.