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Any Sino-American conflict would place enormous pressure on fuel supplies. U.S. fuel dependence turns Manila’s energy fragility into a strategic vulnerability.

Clear ground rules could not only help resolve the North Korean POW standoff but prevent the next case.

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From Hong Kong to Bangkok, Paris, Taiwan, and North America, LGBTQ communities are encountering censorship, surveillance, and coercive pressure linked to China. 

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• The Middle East is on European Union’s security agenda, not yet in its new strategy. On 28 September 2026, the High Representative grouped Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb and the Black Sea as “critical maritime choke points”; the EEAS scoping paper of March 2026 on the new strategy named no southern region.
• European exposure to the region is direct. Migration, organised crime, energy and connectivity tie European economies and domestic politics to the region.
• Europe is present across the region but codifies downwards and ex post. Its missions and frameworks each draw their own map of the region, and southern shocks are answered with what 27 governments can agree upon. Over Hormuz, the EU produced sanctions and an energy letter; the naval response came from a coalition outside the EU.C
• European divergences make improvisation costly. ASPIDES has relied on a handful of contributors, and past naval operations saw member states suspend or withdraw their participation; the response must be agreed in advance.
• The two theatres are one contest, and the method allowing earlier action already exists. A strategy that files the South under energy costs and migration weakens its own eastern priority. The integrated approach, defined by the Council in 2018, prescribes regional and preventive action; the EU should apply it to the Middle East.
• Five recommendations for the strategy. Name the Middle East and the Gulf as the southern dimension of the eastern priority. Set regional objectives to 2030 and place the existing frameworks under them. Make anticipation a principle and give every task its means. Operationalise Article 44 TEU so that willing member states act inside the EU framework rather than beside it. Make solidarity and partnership direction-neutral, from the Emergency Security Protocol and EU-NATO cooperation to a standing EU-GCC security mechanism, to be launched at the rescheduled EU-GCC summit.

Read here in pdf the Policy paper by Andreas C. Hatzidiakos, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP and Constantine Capsaskis, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP.

 

Nach den jüngsten tödlichen Angriffen auf zivile Handelsschiffe, fordert das Parlament die EU auf, die Entsendung einer Marineeinsatzoperation im Schwarzen Meer in Erwägung zu ziehen.
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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Nach den jüngsten tödlichen Angriffen auf zivile Handelsschiffe, fordert das Parlament die EU auf, die Entsendung einer Marineeinsatzoperation im Schwarzen Meer in Erwägung zu ziehen.
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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Les députés condamnent fermement les attaques sans précédent menées par les Houthis, au moyen de missiles et de drones, contre l’Arabie saoudite, ainsi que leur offensive militaire au Yémen.
Commission des affaires étrangères

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Drei Wochen nach Einführung des Tankrabatts zieht Wettbewerbsexperte Tomaso Duso, Leiter der Abteilung Unternehmen und Märkte im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Zwischenbilanz. Täglich verfolgt der Tankrabatt-Monitor des DIW Berlin die Preisentwicklung für Benzin und Diesel ...

Das Parlament will Erasmus+ besser finanzieren und für junge Menschen unabhängig von Einkommen, sozialem Hintergrund oder Wohnort leichter zugänglich machen.
Ausschuss für Kultur und Bildung

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Jeudi, les députés ont approuvé un report de trois ans des règles de surveillance et de déclaration des émissions de méthane applicables aux importateurs de pétrole, de gaz et de charbon.
Commission de l'environnement, de la santé publique et de la sécurité alimentaire

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Le Parlement a adopté son mandat de négociation pour la COP31, appelant à accélérer la sortie des énergies fossiles, accroître le financement climatique et soutenir les pays vulnérables.

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À la suite des dernières attaques meurtrières contre des navires marchands civils, le Parlement demande à l’UE d’envisager le déploiement d’une opération navale en mer Noire.
Commission des affaires étrangères

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On Thursday, Parliament adopted its negotiating mandate for the COP 31 climate talks, demanding faster climate action on fossil fuels, finance and vulnerable countries.

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On Thursday, Parliament adopted its negotiating mandate for the COP 31 climate talks, demanding faster climate action on fossil fuels, finance and vulnerable countries.

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On Thursday, Parliament adopted its negotiating mandate for the COP 31 climate talks, demanding faster climate action on fossil fuels, finance and vulnerable countries.

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On Thursday, Parliament adopted its negotiating mandate for the COP 31 climate talks, demanding faster climate action on fossil fuels, finance and vulnerable countries.

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MEPs strongly condemn the unprecedented missile and drone attacks by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, and their military offensive in Yemen.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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MEPs strongly condemn the unprecedented missile and drone attacks by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, and their military offensive in Yemen.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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