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<title>Europe’s Workforce Crisis: Brussels Needs New Members to Keep Its Economy Running</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is running out of workers – and its next enlargement could provide part of the answer. CEPS warns that shrinking working-age populations and rapid ageing are putting growing pressure on European businesses, public services and economic growth.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Canada Pivot: Brussels Is Looking for Insurance Against Washington</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is quietly building a new layer of strategic insurance – and Canada is moving closer to the centre of it. GMF argues that the EU-Canada relationship is becoming more important as Washington grows less predictable, transatlantic trade tensions rise and Europeans search for reliable partners beyond the traditional US-led framework.]]></description>
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<title>France’s Fuel-Price Panic: Blanket Giveaways Could Make the Real Problem Worse</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France is bracing for another politically explosive energy shock, with petrol potentially reaching €3 a litre by the end of 2026. But Institut Montaigne argues that the familiar response – cut fuel taxes, subsidise everyone and pretend the state can erase the shock – would be expensive, badly targeted and strategically damaging.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Rearmament Trap: Defence Spending Could Gut Its Global Influence</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is racing to rebuild its military strength as Russia threatens the continent and America demands that allies carry more of the security burden. But DIIS warns that governments risk paying for rearmament by hollowing out development assistance just as Washington is retreating from that field.]]></description>
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<title>Britain’s Global Playbook Is Broken: Brexit and Trump Left London Exposed</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain is still behaving like the custodian of an international order that is disappearing beneath its feet. ECFR argues that Brexit, political turmoil and two Trump presidencies have badly weakened the assumptions underpinning British foreign policy, leaving the country more exposed to economic coercion and strategic dependence.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s €7 Trillion Investment Hole: Brussels’ New Budget Barely Makes a Dent</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe knows it needs a massive investment surge to compete, decarbonise, digitalise and defend itself – but its next budget is nowhere near large enough to deliver it. Bruegel estimates that meeting the EU’s major strategic objectives will require about €7 trillion of additional investment between 2028 and 2034.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s AI Mega-Bet Could Backfire: Brussels Risks Building Yesterday’s Technology</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe is preparing to pour billions into giant AI data centres just as the technology underneath them could be changing. The EPC warns that Brussels risks confusing Silicon Valley’s current business model with the infrastructure Europe will actually need for its future AI economy.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Economic Shield Is Too Weak: Italy and Germany Face a World of Coercion</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe built its prosperity on openness. Now that openness is being turned into a weapon. ISPI argues that trade, investment, technology, energy and supply chains have become instruments of geopolitical pressure as the US and China compete and the rules-based trading system weakens.]]></description>
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<title>France’s Classroom Warning: PISA Keeps Exposing the Same Failure</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France has spent 25 years measuring weaknesses in its schools – without finding a convincing way to reverse them. Institut Montaigne argues that PISA 2025 should not become another burst of national alarm followed by another round of reforms and another three years of drift.]]></description>
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<title>Europe’s Budget Has a French Weak Spot – And Brussels Is Running Out of Time</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The EU’s next budget could be agreed – and still be thrown into turmoil by one powerful member state. DGAP warns that a future French government challenging EU contributions could exploit national ratification rules, demand a rebate or, in the most extreme scenario, simply withhold part of France’s payments.]]></description>
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