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....
On Par for the Course: Trump Scores Off Gulf Turmoil
A sitting US president runs an active war from his Florida golf estate while his Scottish resort solicits bookings from tourists fleeing his Gulf battleground....
