Canada’s Defense Spending: Finally Hitting the 2% Target or Just Creative Accounting?
Is Canada truly meeting its NATO defense spending pledge, or is it just a matter of clever accounting tricks?
Category EU Geopolitics
EU Geopolitics examines how the European Union uses its collective economic weight, diplomatic influence, and security tools to shape its neighborhood and the wider world. This category explores enlargement, sanctions, trade policy, energy security, and crises like Russia’s war on Ukraine and tensions in the Indo‑Pacific.
Kim-Lukashenko Summit: Forging an Anti-Western Axis on NATO’s Eastern Flank
Explore the Kim-Lukashenko summit and its implications for NATO as an anti-Western axis forms on Europe's eastern border.
Europe’s fertilizer crisis: prices surge due to Iran war and dependence on Russia.
Winter wheat should now be receiving its second application of nitrogen, sugar beet is waiting to be sown and rapeseed is waiting for its last fertilizer application before flowering. March is an extremely important time for agriculture. But now, of all times, fertiliser markets are coming under pressure.
International Tensions Spark New Nuclear Threat.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the 62nd Munich Security Conference by declaring that the post-war rules-based order ‘no longer exists’, there was plenty of evidence to back his claim. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in defiance of international law, Russia is four years into its illegal invasion of Ukraine, the last nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the USA has just expired and the USA has withdrawn from 66 international bodies and commitments. Since the conference, Israel and the USA have launched another war on Iran, threatening to spark a broader regional conflict.
EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Faces Criticism for Lax…
Title: Europe Grapples with New Agricultural Policy Changes Introduction Europe is facing a big change in how it handles agriculture. The European Union (EU) has introduced new policies aimed at making farming more sustainable. This means farming in a way…
Germany Backs Mercosur Deal
In the past few weeks, the EU - Mercosur trade deal has stirred up quite a storm across Europe. Farmers, politicians, and everyday citizens are all buzzing about what this agreement could mean for the continent. With concerns ranging from job security to food standards, the deal has become a hot topic. Here’s a breakdown of what’s happening and why it matters.
France Opposes Mercosur Trade Deal – 2026 03 17
The Mercosur trade agreement is causing quite a stir across Europe. As leaders debate its potential benefits and drawbacks, ordinary Europeans are left wondering what it means for their jobs, local farmers, and the quality of food on their tables. This article breaks down the latest development, the political disagreements surrounding it, and its possible impact on everyday life.
EU-Mercosur Deal Advances
A new trade deal between the European Union (EU) and a group of South American countries has stirred up a heated debate across Europe. While some see it as a chance to boost trade and lower prices, others worry about its impact on local farmers, food standards, and jobs. As the discussions heat up, many Europeans are left wondering how this deal will affect their daily lives.
How the EU–Mercosur Deal Became Europe’s Most Expensive Diplomatic Irrelevance.
Twenty-five years. A quarter of a century of summits, negotiating rounds, political crises, agricultural riots, and constitutional wrangling — and what does the European Union have to show for it? A trade deal with South America that, before a single tariff has been cut, is already drowning in legal challenge, political opposition, and strategic obsolescence. Welcome to the EU–Mercosur agreement: the most ambitious free trade deal Europe has ever built, and quite possibly the most pointless.
Geopolitics: The Two Faces of Europe: Antifascist by Day, Lackey by Night .
Europe has spent three years wrapping itself in the Ukrainian flag. It has sanctioned oligarchs, funded artillery shells, cheered ICC arrest warrants, and lectured the Global South on the sacred inviolability of international law. European leaders have stood at podiums from Brussels to Kyiv invoking the ghosts of 1938, warning gravely that appeasement is how democracies die. It is a powerful performance. The problem is that it is, increasingly, exactly that — a performance, staged for a domestic audience, dissolving the moment the script demands real courage.