Ukraine is becoming the issue that could split Italy’s next election wide open. The Politico report shows Giorgia Meloni under growing pressure as support for Kyiv turns from a foreign-policy commitment into a domestic political weapon.

Nuclear power is back in Brussels’ good books – but the CEPS report warns that political fashion will not build reactors. After years of energy shocks, Russian pressure, expensive gas and industrial anxiety, the EU is again looking at nuclear as a homegrown source of low-carbon, dispatchable power.

Europe has a rare chance to close part of its productivity gap with America through artificial intelligence. The CEPA commentary warns that Brussels and national governments may blow it by reopening the very copyright rules that allow AI models to learn.

Europe is burning, and Chatham House says Britain’s new government cannot treat this as another summer emergency. Record heatwaves, drought and wildfires have exposed a harsh truth: climate adaptation is still treated as a side issue when it should be at the centre of economic policy, public investment and foreign policy.

Europe has a banking problem it can no longer hide. Howard Davies’ Project Syndicate commentary points to a brutal comparison: the five biggest listed EU banks together are worth less on the stock market than America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase.

Europe keeps treating migration as a border problem. The RIEAS research paper says that is now dangerously outdated. The real pressure starts much further south – in the Sahel, Central Africa, Sudan and Libya – where jihadist violence, coups, state collapse, organised crime, climate stress and foreign meddling are feeding displacement long before people reach the Mediterranean.

Europe wants to break its dangerous dependence on China for the raw materials behind batteries, wind turbines, chips and weapons. The EUISS brief argues that enlargement partners – especially Ukraine and the Western Balkans – could help by supplying critical minerals that Europe badly needs for the green transition, digital industry and rearmament.