
Iran Crisis Puts Ireland on the Sharp End
As oil stops flowing, Ireland's crisis warns that trade-led states are now on the global front line....

How the Iran Ceasefire is Realigning the Gulf and Europe
US-Iran ceasefire, GCC stability, Brent oil drop, and Lebanon escalation reshape Gulf strategy and global energy markets....

French Speech Laws Allow Rivals to Attack Opponents
France detained a sitting MEP and opened a hate-speech probe against its top news channel in the same week; French law, it turned out, had room for everyone....

Armenia Audits Its Partners in a Neighbourhood on Fire
Squeezed by Russian gas threats and lured by Western promises, Yerevan’s bid for freedom must survive a region at war as voters eye a defining June poll....

EU Targets Stablecoins as Iran Forces Digital Tolls
As Iran extracts crypto tolls from tankers in the Gulf, the EU is acting to guard its markets with a kill switch for foreign-backed on-chain tokens and coins....

Home Truths: Why London is Leaning on Brussels
A decade after Brexit tore the UK from European orbit, geography is reasserting itself, and a Middle Eastern war is doing the work that no politician dared to....

Heroes Square to Hollow Institutions: The Orbán Reckoning
A young activist once stood before 200,000 Hungarians in Heroes' Square demanding Soviet withdrawal; decades later, Viktor Orbán seeks a sixth consecutive term...

Guardians Go Radical: France’s Masonic TrialÂ
Inside a quiet Parisian suburb, men pledged to secrecy and brotherhood allegedly ran hit squads, murdered a racing driver, and tried to kill business rivals....

An Evangelical War: Rome Takes on Washington
As a Cardinal is turned away in Jerusalem, a defiant Pope Leo XIV in Rome denounces the holy war rhetoric currently steering Washington's foreign policy....

Breaking Point: The AfD American Divorce
Germany's AfD are now turning their backs on allying with Trump, as his adventurism abroad in Iran is causing a national rethink on American militarism....



