Europe

Slow Decoupling: Europe Is Ditching Microsoft

Europe ditches Microsoft as seven nations embrace digital sovereignty, switching to open-source tools over U.S. tech giants.

NATO: Ottawa’s Pivot to Europe

From Ottawa to Brussels, a new defense partnership shows how quickly allies abandon ship when America's commitment starts to waver.

One Rule for Some: NBA Should Include All (Non-)Arab Stakeholders

The NBA built its brand on diversity, so why does its European expansion read like an exclusive club with questionable membership rules?

Tourists Under Fire: Europe’s North-South Economic Divide Alight

From Barcelona to Naplea, protests against tourists expose how single-sector dependence is strangling southern European communities.

Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century, EU Climate Policy

EU’s carbon border tax sparks backlash in Africa, with critics calling it climate colonialism that threatens $25B in exports by 2030.

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EU Sanctions Talk Tests Europe’s Red Lines

Europe's latest sanctions talk over an Israeli minister is less about one video than about whether the bloc still acts when its outrage is public and specific.

Mistral Leads Europe and Reveals Its Limits

Mistral has become Europe's clearest AI champion, but its rise also shows how far the continent still is from matching the American frontier on scale, compute, and control.

Hantavirus Panic Revives Pandemic Lies

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has done something the virus itself cannot: it has reactivated the full Covid-era misinformation machine, and the results arrived faster this time.

FCAS: Bilateral Deals Break Expensive Collective Defence

Nine years of industrial warfare have now ended Europe's biggest defence dream, as bilateral deals quietly rewrite the continent's security architecture.

Sovereign AI Fund Picks Blair’s Daughter-in-Law to Lead It

Britain's £500 million Sovereign AI fund has chosen Tony Blair's daughter-in-law to lead it, and the appointment says as much about how power circulates in British tech as it does about the fund's ambitions.