☂️ Nuclear deterrence with a European dimension is becoming an operational reality. Between American strategic withdrawal and the Russian menace, Macron has offered a glimpse of what operationalization looks like.
Read the full analysis by Claude-France Arnould here: shorturl.at/8UL5i
🛢️ As Gulf tensions rattle energy markets, Europe is again reminded of its exposure to external fossil fuel shocks.
In our 4 BIG Questions interview, @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social says diversification helped - but real security means cutting fossil fuel dependence.🔗Full interview: shorturl.at/mgOPD
🧩As geopolitical risk reshapes investment, partnerships and market access, companies are starting to embed it into strategy - not just risk management.
BIG’s Thomas Laffitte explores how firms are bringing geopolitical judgement into corporate governance. 🔗 Full paper here: shorturl.at/GD6jK
In a dangerous world, the EU is under pressure to step up defence spending. Our new Report by @vestertborger.bsky.social takes stock of the financial mechanisms, budgetary politics and hard choices behind the existential challenge of our time – defending Europe.
📖🔗 Read it here: shorturl.at/JaHoh
On the 4th anniversary of land warfare’s grim return to European soil, BIG convened an expert webinar to take stock of the situation on the ground – and reflect upon the wider geostrategic implications of Ukraine’s struggle. Watch the conversation below ⬇️ or read the report here: shorturl.at/C37EZ
25.02.2026 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four years of war in Ukraine has turned geopolitical positioning into domestic political rifts. Across Central/Eastern Europe, populists are using this divide to their advantage, with the upcoming Hungarian elections – and Orbán’s latest manoeuvres – a telling case in point. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/6vQfJ
24.02.2026 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The EU’s #SAFE instrument will make nearly €150bn of loans available for Member States to buy weaponry and defence systems. Investment plans for FR, CZ and HU are still under assessment by the Commission - but for 16 others, the Council of the #EU is now releasing the funds. Here's who gets what. ⬇️
16.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Join us to reflect on Ukraine’s resilience, Europe’s reckoning and the strategic questions demanding answers.
On 24 February, BIG is hosting a webinar on Ukraine’s endurance and Europe’s strategic choices, with Mariana Budjeryn, Ed Arnold and Oleksandra Azarkhina.
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/UAaRg
Europe is looking to the stars in 2026 - but “failure to launch” is a real risk 🔭 Uncoordinated national “coopetition” can fragment delivery. In his latest essay for BIG, Alban Guyomarc’h argues tech roadmaps can bridge rhetoric to deployable systems.
Read the full article here: 🔗 shorturl.at/0KaDO
Time for Brexit Britain to come in from the cold? With the ‘Special Relationship’ turning sour, and the next UK-EU summit pencilled in for the spring, BIG’s Martin Leng argues that the UK should re-embrace its European destiny while it still remains politically possible. ➡️🔗 shorturl.at/5m157
02.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Success. 🇪🇺🤝🇮🇳
30.01.2026 10:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Faced with the New America, a compelling new narrative of who ‘We’ are is a vital ideological bulwark. Writing for @euractiv.com today, BIG's Director @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social calls on Europe to relearn the ‘language of power’ – and reclaim the power of language.
🔗 Read here: shorturl.at/8XojK
At tomorrow’s #EU–#India Summit, a partnership with real geopolitical weight meets its moment of truth. Brussels leans on rules and standards; New Delhi defends policy space. BIG’s Valeria Santi examines why bridging the governance gap is now the central geopolitical task. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/brYB5
While Mark Carney may have charted a new strategic direction in #Davos, Trump’s Greenland climbdown reveals that Mark Rutte's flattery and diplomacy remain essential survival skills.
BIG's @hanskribbe.bsky.social dissects the repercussions from an Alpine summit like no other. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/epJuF
The #EU’s shift away from #oil and #gas is good news for the planet – but for its fossil fuels suppliers, the picture is more complex. Writing for Nature Energy, BIG Fellow Thijs Van de Graaf explores the moral and geopolitical dilemma behind Europe’s green transition. ➡️ shorturl.at/xp26D
20.01.2026 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🗺️ Most maps push the Arctic to the margins. On a polar projection, the High North is an operational arena – shipping, cables, air corridors, early warning and SAR. 🧭🧩
💡 BIG’s map shows how Arctic connectivity reshapes distance, access and influence.
🔗 Check the map here: shorturl.at/PG6fE
🎙️ BIG's @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social spoke with @euscream.bsky.social for their latest episode. What next after the geostrategic wake-up call in the High North?
🔊⬇️ Listen here now:
Spotify: shorturl.at/6QESm
Web: shorturl.at/8v6HY
#Greenland #Denmark #Trump #USA #Security #Defence
Icy #Greenland is suddenly a geopolitical hotspot. High on the rush of a smash-and-grab operation in Caracas, the US administration has doubled down on its threats to annex the island this week – and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen has warned that such a move would herald ‘the end of #NATO’.
Our take ⬇️
It's not too late to give the gift of geopolitics this Christmas. 🎄🌍📚
From the reverberations of history and memory to the hypothetical nuclear crises of the future, you're sure to find a festive read to suit any taste on BIG's Christmas bookshelf.
🔗 big-europe.eu/publications...
In Central and Eastern Europe, #geopolitics is both an old wound and a new political faultline. The #EU must tread carefully, argues BIG's Thomas Laffitte, lest opponents become polarized foes in a reductive battle of civilizations which may do more harm than good. ⬇️ #CEE
🔗 shorturl.at/KjRsX
🎙️ Nuestro podcast lleva el micrófono a Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, autora y periodista argentina.
Una conversación compleja y provocadora acerca de la historia, los idiomas, el #poder – y la incertidumbre en las relaciones futuras entre #Europa y #Latinoamérica.
🎧 Escucha aquí: shorturl.at/z57nA
The Franco-German squabble over the FCAS fighter jet is a show of weakness just when Europe needs to be projecting strength, argues Martin Leng from the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics (@bigeurope.bsky.social) in this guest op-ed. www.the-sentinel.media/p/op-ed-fcas...
16.12.2025 07:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As #Trump takes aim at #Europe, our guest writer Mark Gilbert counters that both its cheerleaders and detractors – US and European – have created a false dichotomy. The European project is both more complex and subtle than either Euro-boosters or sceptics would have us believe. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/Xi5hg
In a wide-ranging interview on #Ukraine, #Trump and the new geopolitical order, BIG's Director @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social spoke with El Pais about the urgency of Europe's present moment.
🔗 Read the full conversation: shorturl.at/CTzPH
@elpais.com
Any doubts about American intentions vis-à-vis #Ukraine and #Europe were put to rest on Friday with the #US' new #NationalSecurity Strategy. BIG's Claude-France Arnould argues the only way to avoid a nightmare is to wake up - and start building effective European power, now.
🔗 shorturl.at/4UinV
And here's our report with proposals on how to go further: big-europe.eu/publications...
05.12.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The #EU announced its new #EconomicSecurity Strategy this week. 💶🔒 A toolkit without an instruction manual, argues BIG's Hans Kribbe: 'If the #Commission really wants to deploy the EU's economic policy arsenal to achieve foreign/security goals, we deserve to know what those goals are.'
Our take ⬇️
While Washington and Moscow negotiate, Kyiv and Brussels assess the stark choices ahead. We asked former UA gov minister Oleksandra Azarkhina four BIG questions - on her impressions of #EU defence coordination, American claims on mineral rights, and what #Ukraine needs now.
🔗 shorturl.at/DvBml
Thought that building a shared European identity was hard? Try developing a common strategic culture. 🧩🧩🧩
'An EU security revolution begins with culture, with rediscovering what Europe stands for and what it is prepared to defend', writes BIG's Kate O'Riordan. ⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/x1MSB
In recent weeks, the #EU described #Georgia as a membership candidate ‘in name only’. How did it come to this for Tbilisi?
The country's 5th President Salome Zourabichvili writes for BIG on what's at stake - and what Europe should do now. 💡⬇️
🔗 big-europe.eu/publications...
#Enlargement #Caucasus
