European Union

Czechia’s 2025 Election Meets a Nuclear Test: The KHNP Tender

Czechia heads to the polls on 3-4 October 2025, with an election framed as a choice between continuity under Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s centre-right coalition and a return to government by Andrej Babiš’s Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (hereinafter: the ANO). Recent polling puts ANO ahead, sharpening the campaign’s focus on energy prices, industrial policy and...

EU Telecoms Squeezed by China Tech Policy

The government of China is using a new national security review system to increase restrictions on European telecommunications suppliers. This policy directly affects firms like Ericsson and Nokia and is part of a broader strategic push for self-reliance within the China tech sector. The development is indicative of a global trend toward technological decoupling, where...

Russia’s Options Before the War in Ukraine

“War is nothing but the continuation of policy with other means”. This famous quote by General Clausewitz is one of the most important quotes in the history of political and military science. He accurately defines war as a tool of policymaking and, therefore, as a contextually embedded form of coordinated behaviour at the societal level....