Open Dialogue Research Journal
France and Germany have long approached China differently. Berlin, whose carmakers and machinery exporters depend on the Chinese market, favoured engagement and was wary of confrontation. Paris, more concerned with industrial sovereignty, pushed for tougher defensive tools. Now the two largest economies in the European Union are moving together. In […]
A protest movement that began in late September at a single Paris suburb high school over teacher shortages has, within roughly two weeks, grown into a nationwide confrontation involving thousands of arrests, serious injuries to teenagers, and a government struggling to contain a crisis it clearly didn’t see coming. The […]
If even one of the major European governments turns over, Ukraine’s lifeline will be severed. Zelensky’s harsh words about US President Donald Trump was an emotional response after Zelensky deliberately thwarted Trump’s request that Ukraine not strike Russian refineries. Unfortunately Zelensky is making matters worse, and Ukraine’s future is now […]
Two very different protest movements are unfolding at the same time in two neighboring European democracies. In Spain, tens of thousands of people in 50 cities have taken to the streets over a housing market that has priced a generation out of independent adult life. In France, high school […]
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international […]
Christine Lagarde doesn’t typically frame central bank speeches around geopolitical vulnerability, but her address in Vienna this week did exactly that. The European Central Bank president argued that Europe’s growing reliance on American and Chinese artificial intelligence isn’t just a competitiveness gap – it’s a strategic exposure that could hand […]
Europe is looking for insurance. After 2022, American guarantees no longer look ironclad, and northern capitals began searching for a substitute closer to home. On 2 March 2026, at the Île Longue submarine base, Emmanuel Macron announced the most significant shift in French nuclear doctrine in three decades. For the […]
A rare joint statement from Britain, France, and Germany has highlighted growing international concern over China’s increasingly assertive activities in waters east of Taiwan, underscoring how maritime disputes in the Indo-Pacific are becoming a matter of global strategic importance rather than merely a regional issue. The coordinated response from the […]
France’s economy has hit an unexpected pause at the start of 2026, raising fresh concerns about the country’s ability to maintain even modest growth in an increasingly uncertain global environment. According to INSEE, the country’s gross domestic product showed zero growth in the first quarter – an outcome that caught many […]
The following is from the lone neutralist website in the Ukrainian language, strana.ua, which is blocked in both Ukraine and Russia, but is nonetheless either #1 or #2 as the most frequently visited online news website by Ukrainians: https://stranaua.media/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html https://stranaua-media.translate.goog/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://archive.ph/EGIUb “The Day at the Front: Russians in Konstantinovka” 22 […]
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