A sanction is only real when someone boards the ship
France’s interception of the Tagor shows both European resolve and the institutional limit beneath it: Brussels can write the sanctions regime, but it still takes a national navy and a natio
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The skies, the words, the missing machinery
Von der Leyen finally calls the Baltic drone incursions what they are. Naming the threat is not the same as defending against it.
The instrument and the factory
Five capitals are pushing Brussels toward a tougher trade line on China. The harder question is what Europe plans to build behind the tariff wall.
A perimeter without an architecture
Parliament has voted to double steel tariffs and slash quotas. The instrument is real; the industrial policy behind it is still missing.
The price of an exception
Meloni asks Brussels to treat energy spending like defence. The request lands on a fiscal framework already designed to bend.
Aachen and the autonomy Europe cannot yet build
Draghi and Mitsotakis have closed the rhetorical gap on strategic autonomy. The gap that matters — treaty architecture, production capacity, fiscal commitment — remains open.
Energy: paying for what we do not control
Europe has changed energy suppliers without changing the architecture of its dependence — and the bill arrives anyway.
The age that was not named
Von der Leyen opens the door to a social media delay for children, but leaves the threshold, the legal basis and the verification system for later.
The lock changed, not the door
Brussels finally sanctions Israeli settlers after a Hungarian election did what two years of diplomacy could not.
The continent that wants what it cannot yet do
A Eurobarometer records the highest support for common European defence in two decades. The institutional machinery to deliver it remains where it has always been.