Spain

Europe’s Real Problem is Housing, Not Airbnb

Barcelona plans to eliminate 10,000 tourist apartments by 2028. Rents continue to climb anyway. Who benefits: the landlord, tenant, or the Airbnb host?

Casablanca’s Urban Revolution: What Europe’s Cities Are Missing

Casablanca’s rapid urbanisation offers lessons for Madrid and Milan in transport, planning, sustainability, and social justice.

A Paper Tiger: American F-35s Dive Bomb as Europe Sets a New Course on Defence

Madrid's choice to ditch American fighter jets shows Europe wants to build its own defence gear.

Macron’s Palestine Gambit: France First G7 Nation to Back Statehood

France’s recognition of Palestine sets a bold G7 precedent, aiming to revive peace talks and reshape European Middle East policy.

Spain Overtakes Japan: Services Economy Writes New Economic History

Madrid's GDP per capita now surpasses Tokyo's for the first time as services boom, marking a seismic turn in the global economIc order.

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Europe’s Nuclear Turn Carries a French Accent

Finland's vote to allow nuclear weapons and Switzerland's push for new reactors both trace back to a familiar French ambition to lead Europe's atomic future.

Iran is Splitting the West Like Ukraine Did

Iran's US-brokered peace deal is laying bare severe fractures across Western diplomacy, as America's transactional alliance calculus finds its second major victim.

Russia Still Wants a Red Sea Anchor

Russia's quest for a Red Sea naval base has fallen silent again, the pause manifesting Sudan's bargaining instincts and Moscow's enduring strategic patience alike.

War Killed Mona Khalil and Erased Decades of Conservation

When a conservationist dies in a conflict zone, the loss is ecological as well as human, and the species she protected have no replacement for her.

What Starmer’s Exit Means for Europe and the Middle East

Keir Starmer's resignation hands Andy Burnham a fragile inheritance, as Britain's standing in Brussels and across the Gulf hinges on what changes next.