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Worshippers attend Mass held by Pope Leo XIV via a live broadcast on a giant screen at Metz’s Saint-Étienne Cathedral on September 28 2026, the final day of the papal visit to France, Pope Leo’s second major visit to an EU nation. Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP

Pope Leo XIV’s Europe

The Pope advocates for a Europe based on multilateralism and overcoming nationalism, while reasserting its Christian roots.
China has long been the EU’s leading origin of imports of goods, including primarily electrical equipment, machines and mechanical parts. While China is also a large destination of EU exports of goods, these are much lower than imports (source: Eurostat). Vchal/Shutterstock (no reuse)

How World Trade Organization reform could help address the EU‑China trade imbalance

The US and China have extended their trade truce till January. Meanwhile, EU-China export/import imbalances persist with sticking points, including voluntary export curbs and industrial policy reform.
A soldier takes part in German naval exercises off the coast of Norway in 2025. Hannibal Hanschke / EPA

Why Europe wants to boost its Arctic presence

EU leaders are scrambling to increase the bloc’s presence in the Arctic.
Xenia Fedorova’s book, Bannie, on display at the Fayard stand alongside other books published by this publishing house, owned by French billionaire and media mogul Vincent Bolloré, at the 2025 Paris Book Fair, held at the Grand Palais in Paris on April 12 2025. Xavier Galiana/AFP

Xenia Fedorova, or how Russian propaganda turns free thinking on itself

The Fedorova case is emblematic of a rhetorical method used by Russian propaganda: appealing to the targeted public’s critical thinking to convince them to disregard sources seen as “official” and “dominant.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands during a bilateral meeting in her office at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Sept. 16, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Thanks, Trump: Why Canada may become the European Union’s first ever ‘associate member’

Canada has spent the last century defending European democracies. Now it’s asking them to return the favour.
Murmansk in north-west Russia and Aloysha – the city’s monument honouring the ‘Defenders of the Soviet Arctic’ or the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who served in World War II. Russia’s arctic zone represents key geostrategic territory in its 2024 Spatial Development Strategy. The area would be the backbone of its plans for a broader Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor. Parilov/Shutterstock (no reuse)

How war and sanctions are reshaping how Russia governs its vast territory

Support settlements are at the forefront of Russian spatial policy. What does the development of these administrative service hubs tell us about how the land lies in Russia today?
The Become project illustrates how European research and real-world organisational practice can reinforce one another, in this case in educating communities about sustainability and best practices for driving the transition towards a circular economy. Svittlana // Shutterstock

Europe recycles just 12% of the materials it uses. Here’s how training can accelerate the transition to a circular economy

Learning communities are supporting circularity across Europe by rethinking processes for recycling waste or reconditioning clothing and vehicles, and navigating policy U-turns.
People breach barbed wires as they attempt to cross from the Moroccan northern town of Fnideq to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on July 31, 2026. (AP Photo)

Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration

Why is a European border located on African soil? And why has the dispute about Ceuta and Spanish colonization remained unresolved for so long?

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