How do publics around the world view geopolitics one year into the second Trump presidency? ECFR’s 2024 polling revealed that many middle-power societies welcomed Trump’s return to the White House.

Israel’s expanding ground-offensive threatens to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into neighbouring Egypt. This would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation and risks destabilising Egypt, an ...

As global power becomes more dispersed, the relationship between Europe (and the West) and China is increasingly shaped not ...

Houthi advances now threaten Saudi Arabia’s most viable oil-export route. Europeans should strengthen Riyadh's maritime and ...

As European leaders hobnob with their counterparts at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, they must ...

Amid growing uncertainty, Europeans face a fundamental challenge: how to keep themselves safe with potentially less America ...

The United States has become one of the European Union’s most important suppliers of fossil fuels. According to statistics published by Bruegel, in 2021 the US share of gas supplies to the EU was less ...

Three foreign policy “tribes” compete for President Donald Trump’s ear: restrainers, prioritisers and primacists. Their combined impact for Europe over the last two years has been unhappy: a hybrid ...

Israel’s September 9th airstrike on Qatar has shattered Gulf states’ assumptions about regional security. The attack targeted senior Hamas leadership—which Doha had hosted at Washington’s behest—and ...

When America’s then-president Donald Trump visited Poland in 2017, he enjoyed a warm reception. Warsaw’s residents remained true to their country’s historical allyship with the United States, lining ...