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A made-in-China plan for world domination
Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower
Energy
World News
Press release - Trade Committee reactions to signing of trade agreement between EU and Indonesia
The EU and Indonesia have concluded today trade and investment deals that should boost EU export to the region, while ensuring environmental and social standards.Committee...
European Affairs
Policy
The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back
The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor
World News
The UN’s grim future
Going rogue, decay or Trumpification
Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more
Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia
Editorial — Europe’s environment 2025: Providing knowledge for action
We are getting ready to publish our five-yearly flagship report ‘Europe’s environment 2025’. It is the most comprehensive assessment of the state and outlook of...
Environment
European Affairs
Interview — Co-created by 38 countries: the story behind Europe’s environment 2025
The European Environment Agency’s most comprehensive assessment of Europe’s environment, climate and sustainability has been co-created with 38 countries. More than 1,000 experts from over...
Environment
European Affairs
Press release - International Trade Committee delegation in Geneva to meet WTO this week
International Trade Committee delegation in Geneva this week for the WTO Public Forum and the 55th session of the WTO Parliamentary Conference steering committeeCommittee on...
European Affairs
Biology
Top Gun—without Maverick
Drones ride into the danger zone
Robotics
Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour
European Affairs
How Israel’s arms exports have made it sanctions-proof
Israel gains diplomatic insurance by supplying weapons crucial to Europe’s defence
World News
Policy
ESA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence...
Space & Astronomy
European Affairs
Who is winning in AI—China or America?
China offers the world a values-free, results-based vision of AI governance
World News
Artificial Intelligence
Meet the world’s hottest upstart weapons dealers
A ferocious global arms race is big business
World News
Business
Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI
“Marxist lunacy” is out. But unbiased chatbots may be impossible
Artificial Intelligence
SpaceX pulls off Starship rocket launch in much-needed comeback
The Starship rocket is critical to the company's hopes of one day carrying people to the Moon and Mars.
Space & Astronomy
Business
The wrong way to end a war
Dark lessons from history that explain Vladimir Putin’s “peacemaking”
A burning threat to pregnant women
Alarming new research on the link between heat and dangerous pregnancies
Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?
The Trumpian assault on globalism, as seen from Singapore
World News
The end of the second world war
How The Economist reported on the war, week by week
World News
America’s new plan to fight a war with China
Readying for a rumble in the jungle
The War Room newsletter: Seven of the best books on the Pacific war
Richard Cockett, a news editor, recommends seven books about the defeat of Japan in the second world war
Books & Literature
World News
Press release - Statement on the negotiations of a just peace for Ukraine based on international law and the will of the Ukrainian people
In a joint statement, lead MEPs stress that no peace in Ukraine can be negotiated without full participation of Ukraine’s democratically elected leadership and the...
European Affairs
World News