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From the Digital Services Act to EuroStack, MEP Alexandra Geese argues that Europe's digital sovereignty will not be won by copying US platform models. It requires investment, industrial policy, and the courage to build on Europe's own democratic strengths.

The future of Europe's biodiversity may also be decided outside the European Union. In Albania's Narta Lagoon, a conflict over tourism is testing Europe's environmental credibility.

The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue office in Brussels is welcoming applications for its traineeship programme, running from September 2026 to February 2027. The deadline for applications is Sunday 28 June 2026, 23:59 CEST.

Those who pit security against international cooperation will ultimately end up with neither. Current conflicts demonstrate why energy sovereignty, climate protection, and cooperation go hand in hand.

The AI gold rush is rewriting the rules of energy, politics and society at once. Europe's answer so far has been a sovereignty debate. Our latest newsletter argues the bigger question is what kind of society AI will create.

As the EU and India pour billions into energy grids, transport corridors and digital infrastructure, something vital keeps slipping through the net: the people who live, work, migrate and grieve along these routes. Two young woman climate leaders from South Asia argue that the next frontier of EU-Global Majority cooperation must be a social architecture, one that supports the people – their health, their rights, their dignity and their knowledge – behind systems, not just the systems alone.

New geopolitical realities also call for new strategies for tech sovereignty: The EU’s digital strategy links its own competitiveness and autonomy with new international partnerships.

Between digital dominance and democratic freedom: how can Germany and Europe strengthen their digital sovereignty? Rebecca Lenhard, spokesperson for digital policy for the Greens in the Bundestag, provides some answers.

Fragile institutions, deep polarization, and growing pressures on the country's civic identity reveal how much remains unfinished. European integration is Montenegro's decisive chance, not just to close negotiating chapters, but to transform state and society from within.

After 16 years of Viktor Orbán, a change of government in Hungary seemed almost unthinkable until recently. And yet Péter Magyar and his TISZA party won the election on April 12, 2026 by a clear margin. The new government’s next steps are important milestones for the restoration of democracy and the rule of law.