Tomáš Lindner
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s pivot back toward Nato has brought drones, missiles and Black Sea leverage to the West. For this price, Europe is quietly tolerating rigged party leaderships and pre‑summit mass arrests at home.
For Europeans facing a more aggressive Russia and a less reliable US, Munich’s booming defence startups show how quickly war is reshaping industry.
Nato remains strong despite current tensions, says Stubb as he calls Europe to take on more responsibility for its own defence.
German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz: “…the climate crisis has robbed many people of their belief in the future of the planet. Russia’s attack on Ukraine shook Europe’s faith in the existing security order. The pace of economic growth is very limited and, in many Western democracies, governments have lost their capacity to act”.
Bulgarian public intellectual and political scientist Ivan Krastev interviewed on the post-Cold War ‘West’ and the future of Europe. ‘An obsession with European unity will no longer work. I do not believe that the European Union can cope with the challenges of the real world if we insist on having all 27 countries on board. We need a much more flexible structure. The future of the EU – if it is to succeed – is a strange mixture of integration and disintegration’, he warns.
Interview with Anna Thalhammer, who exposed Austrian journalists suspected of working for Moscow, why the country treats Russian espionage so casually, and how its history has shaped this attitude.