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Meloni’s SAFE Retreat and Poland’s First Payment: Europe’s Rearmament Problem Is No Longer Only Financial
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Europe’s Defence Union Will Be Built in Factories, Not Summits
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Trump’s Taiwan Ambiguity Tests Alliance Confidence After the Xi Summit
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A Window of Opportunity for European Strategic Autonomy
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The Fragile Flank: Europe’s Missile Gap and the Crisis of Deterrence
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The European Defence Agency in 2025: From Coordination to Defence Readiness
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Training Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: The Role of AI-Driven Simulations in Modern Defence
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EDF 2026: What the Calls Are Really Asking For
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23 SEP 2026
PLA Drones, Intelligentized Warfare, and the Limits of the Ukraine Analogy
22 SEP 2026
Will China deliver? China's next decade and the consequences for Europe
20 MAY 2026
Disinformation on Climate Change
13 MAY 2026
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)
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