France’s unemployment problem is creeping back – and the Institut Montaigne interview makes clear why politicians should stop pretending this is just a statistical blip. For the first time since 2021, unemployment has moved above 8 percent, with 2.6 million people affected.

Europe is facing a new cyber threat that its rulebooks are not built to handle. The Carnegie Europe paper warns that autonomous AI agents are moving into cyberspace as tools that can scan, reason, adapt and act with far less human supervision than traditional software.

France is trying to turn its nuclear arsenal into a wider European shield. The Responsible Statecraft analysis argues that Emmanuel Macron’s new doctrine of forward deterrence may look like Europe finally taking security seriously, but could instead drag the continent into a more dangerous nuclear stand-off with Russia.

Europe is reopening the door to international carbon credits as part of its 2040 climate target. The Bruegel policy brief treats this as a potentially useful tool – but one loaded with old traps that could shred the EU’s climate credibility if handled badly.

Europe has two giant institutions meant to protect it – NATO and the EU – yet the CEPA analysis argues that they still fail to work together with the urgency the threat demands. The problem is not a lack of summits, statements or polite language.

HCSS’s summer monitor gives the Netherlands a narrow pass – and then strips away the comfort. For the fourth measurement in a row, Dutch citizens rate social stability at 6.1. That looks steady. It is not reassuring.

DGAP’s white paper delivers a sharp warning to Berlin: the wake-up-call phase is over. Germany is already under hybrid attack, from drones and cyber strikes to sabotage, disinformation and economic espionage.