On Wednesday, Jana Puglierin and Jacob Ross will join us for an IPQ Debate to the answer to the question, “who is leading Europe?”

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Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Sarah Conway City Bureau Invisible Institute Reuters The Washington Post Katie Engelhart NYT Magazine Congratulations to Vladimir Kara-Murza and The Washington Post. #Pulitzer #FreeVladimir

British humour…

The closer we get to November, the more the prospect of another Trump victory hangs over NATO like a Sword of Damocles. For lnternationale Politik Quarterly I looked at the idea of a 'dormant NATO', which is being discussed in conservative think tanks close to Trump…1/3 ip-quarterly.com/en/nato-thrive…

.Evan Gershkovich has spent more than 400 days in a Russian prison on bogus charges without trial and Austin Tice has spent more than 4,200 days in captivity after being abducted in Syria. The publishers and editors of the The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post come together on World…

Avec Joseph de Weck nous plaidons pour une série de compromis entre #Paris et #Berlin permettant aux Européens de financer un effort durable d’armement de l’ #Ukraine et de renforcement de l’industrie de défense européenne

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En 2020, Paris et Berlin avaient proposé une dette commune européenne pour faire face aux conséquences du Covid. Quatre ans après, pourquoi pas une initiative analogue pour aider l'Ukraine ? Excellente suggestion de Joseph de Weck & Michel Duclos lnternationale Politik Quarterly ip-quarterly.com/en/time-franco…

Kyiv not only needs European money, it also really needs a European plan. Michel Duclos and I outline how a Franco-German grand bargain for future Ukraine support could look like. lnternationale Politik Quarterly

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The closer we get to November, the more the prospect of another Trump victory hangs over NATO like a Sword of Damocles. To counter that risk, Europe needs to become a much stronger pillar of the alliance, Jana Puglierin writes.

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Cuffs off. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Ukraine targeting ATACMS at Russia: 'So it up to them on how and when to use it, and our hopes are that they'll create some pretty good effects.' c-span.org/video/?c511539… via @CSPAN

Good move by Macron. Doesn’t seemed to have crossed Scholz‘ mind when he traveled to Beijing recently. Interesting to see whether the German chancellor will be asked to join them meeting Xi in Paris (would be undeserved).

Commendable example. European Commission take note!

Our wide-ranging interview with Francis Fukuyama

Invincible!

Insightful by Jacob Ross

Time for 🇩🇪 (and 🇪🇺) to get serious about de-risking.

New piece in lnternationale Politik Quarterly together with my GPPi colleague Jakob Hensing.

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Some people tell it like it is…

Chinese communists really have an interesting sense of humour…

The one with the vanishing moderator 😉 (Proof that our historic building including its IT infrastructure could do with an update…)

A good day to read Jacob Ross‘ Jacob Ross recent lnternationale Politik Quarterly article on France‘s pivot to Europe ip-quarterly.com/en/frances-piv…