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20 Aug 2026
Business 20 August 2026 edition
The immediate development is less about a single trade instrument than about a change in bargaining posture from the United States toward the European Union. For European companies, the real issue...
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18 Aug 2026
Policy 18 August 2026 edition
The immediate development is not simply better scientific detection of invasive species, but a stronger attempt to turn foresight into earlier regulatory action. The real challenge for the EU is...
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13 Aug 2026
Business 13 August 2026 edition
Western Europes record June-July temperatures mark another shift from climate risk as a forecast to climate stress as a live operating constraint. The immediate issue is not only physical...
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11 Aug 2026
Policy 11 August 2026 edition
The intense media focus on the police data request compliance market vastly overstates the immediate impact; it’s fueled by regulatory novelty, not widespread disruption. The reality is that few...
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25 Jun 2026
Business 25 June 2026 edition
A developing heatwave across Europe is pushing climate risk from boardroom abstraction into day-to-day operations. The immediate issue is not only higher cooling demand, but the way heat amplifies...
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23 Jun 2026
Policy 23 June 2026 edition
The EBAs review marks a shift from adding safeguards to making the rulebook workable. That matters because European banks have spent years absorbing overlapping capital, buffer and resolution...
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18 Jun 2026
Business 18 June 2026 edition
Europes market watchdogs are no longer treating cross-border supervision as a technical debate. They are positioning it as a competitiveness issue for the capital markets union, with the implicit...
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16 Jun 2026
Policy 16 June 2026 edition
This goes to the credibility of European deterrence and the resilience of public authority in a crisis. Governments may discover that nominal capability on paper does not equal usable capability in...
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11 Jun 2026
Business 11 June 2026 edition
Hungary is trying to recast itself from an awkward EU outlier into a usable diplomatic intermediary. That matters less because talks are close, and more because it shows smaller member states are...
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09 Jun 2026
Policy 9 June 2026 edition
Europe’s telecom policy debate is shifting from consumer protection alone towards industrial capacity and strategic autonomy. The immediate issue is not simply faster broadband, but whether the EU...