Hormuz
US-China
Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz
The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.
BUSINESS
Rivals Redraw Energy Map as Germany’s Industry Stalls
As Moscow disrupts Kazakh oil flows heading west to Germany, Tehran builds a northern corridor to Kazakhstan, leaving Berlin with no leverage.
EUROPE
Populists Collide: Behind the Meloni-Trump Feud
From golden praise to bitter fury, Meloni's rebuke of Trump's papal attack over Iran ends their special bond.
WORLD
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.
BUSINESS
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.
Popular
Warsaw’s Pump Relief Leaves Security Unbought
A vanished Venezuelan cargo, a severed Saudi pipeline and a revived windfall levy expose the limits of Warsaw's control over its own petrol pumps.
India Demographic Dividend Starts to Fade as Glaciers Melt
India built its growth story on abundant people and abundant water, and both assumptions are now proving less permanent than expected.
Uneven Protection: Religious Freedom in Belgium
A country can guarantee religious freedom by law and still let how visibly someone practises it decide whether they get a job or a seat at the table.
Venice Rewards Israeli Gaza Documentary Amid Domestic Backlash
An award can celebrate a film's craft without settling what its allegations actually prove, a distinction Venice has now put under real pressure.
Celtic Pact: Is a Post-UK Future Inevitable?
The pact signed in Cardiff dares Westminster to defend a fragile union which Trump's transactional treatment of old allies has left looking suddenly negotiable.
