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[Commentary] #FutureOfEurope: Thinking European first and its implications. Faced with heightened geopolitical uncertainty, the European Union should base its actions on an overarching principle of ‘thinking European first’ | Bruegel?https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analysis/thinking-european-first-and-its-implications/

[Featured] #Trade: EU strikes back against US steel and aluminium tariffs with retaliatory package, by?Gerardo Fortuna | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/12/eu-strikes-back-against-us-steel-and-aluminium-tariffs-with-retaliatory-package

#Trade: #French minister says #EU can go further in response to #US tariffs | Reuters?

[Featured] #UkraineWar: #Trump hopes to speak to #Putin after #US and #Ukraine agree 30-day ceasefire, by?Tamsin Paternoster | Euronews

#RussianSanctions: #European countries face growing pressure to seize frozen #Russian assets, by?Eric Albert,?Denis Cosnard and?Virginie Malingre | Le Monde

[Featured]? #EUDefence: #Sweden to expand arms and space capabilities without #US, by?Richard Milne | Financial Times

#EUDefence - #Eurobonds: EU plans debt revolution to finance defense, by Andreas Becker | Deutsche Welle

[Featured] #EUDefence & #FutureOfEurope: Europe is sliding into irrelevance' - Yanis #Varoufakis hammers 'Rearm Europe' plan, by Orlando Whitehead | Brussels Times

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1481297/europe-is-sliding-into-irrelevance-yanis-varoufakis-hammers-rearm-europe-plan

[Analysis] #GlobalEurope: A risky rapprochement, #Europe’s #China dilemma in a shifting global order, by?Xhoi Zajmi | Euractiv

[Podcast] #Energy: #French #Europe minister touts #Nuclear shield share, by?Ma?a de la Baume | Euronews

https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/podcast/french-europe-minister-touts-nuclear-shield-share/

[Commentary] #EUBudget & #Development: The future of #EU external financing under the next #MFF - Merging or refining instruments? By @marielladc and Alexei Jones | ECDPM ??

https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analysis/the-future-of-eu-external-financing-under-the-next-mff-merging-or-refining-instruments/

#EUPolitics: #Portugal's government collapses after no-confidence vote. The collapse of the center-right government will likely force an early election in the southwestern European nation, its third in as many years, by?Nicholas Counter | Deutsche Welle

[Explainer] #EUPolitics: 3 elections in 3 years: #Portugal’s political crisis explained, by?Aitor Hernández-Morales | Politico

[Analysis] #EUPolitics: The #German #Greens as an alliance party: The end of an illusion? By Annette Lensing | Ifri - Institut fran?ais des relations internationales

https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analysis/the-german-greens-as-an-alliance-party-the-end-of-an-illusion/

#Health: #Belgium wanted a drug shortages bill. It’s not happy with the #EU’s plan, by?Rory O’neill, Helen Collis, Claudia Chiappa and Mari Eccles | Politico?

#Migration: #EU proposal would send rejected migrants to centres outside the bloc for deportation | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-proposal-would-send-rejected-migrants-centres-outside-bloc-deportation-2025-03-11/

[Commentary] #WesternBalkans: In a new age of great-power politics, the #WesternBalkans might seem like an afterthought, argues Valery Perry | Project Syndicate ?

https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analysis/the-western-balkan-bellwether/

#GlobalEurope - #Greenland election results: Center-right opposition wins amid Trump saber-rattling. The Democrats party comes first after its leader hit back at the U.S. president who wants to take over the #Arctic island, by Seb Starcevic | Politico

[Podcast] #AI: Intelligence artificielle: quelle gouvernance ? By Laure de Roucy-Rochegonde | Ifri - Institut fran?ais des relations internationales

https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/podcast/intelligence-artificielle-quelle-gouvernance/