European Security, Politics, and Economics

The second round of presidential elections in Poland will either consolidate the government’s power and further its controversial institutional reforms or provide the opposition with more oversight over these decisions.

A U.S.-UK free trade agreement could bring strategic benefits for both sides, but the United Kingdom will have difficult choices to make on alignment, timing, and standards

The United Kingdom’s decision to remove Huawei from its 5G system is a quick reversal that has to do with U.S. pressure, domestic opinion, and political necessity for Boris Johnson’s government.

Covid-19 could reinforce the political incentives for the UK government to accept a no-deal Brexit at the end of 2020 if it cannot reach a satisfactory trade agreement with the European Union.

The European Union must choose between different options for its economic recovery plan, all of which present opportunities and drawbacks and will affect the bloc’s stability in the long term.

The European Union’s tense debate over post-Covid-19 recovery is the result of political and institutional shortcomings that must be addressed, or they will continue to surface in subsequent crises.

Fighting the Covid-19 pandemic will force European governments to make tough fiscal choices, which might detract from recent efforts to strengthen European defense. But a disproportionate blow to defense budgets would leave Europe more vulnerable to existing security threats—and to new ones that could emerge from the pandemic.

The Covid-19 crisis will change the Europe we have known for the past 70 years. What is on the short- and long-term horizon once the dust has settled?