We decided to launch the European News Journal at a time when the long-cherished European dream of world peace has crumbled. Conflicts and wars are gradually replacing diplomacy. Putin’s nearly four-year-long war against Ukraine has brought military conflict back to Europe, and old conflicts in other parts of the world are flaring up. Populist leaders are gaining ground, threatening democratic values and structures, even among our closest allies. Trump’s grotesque new US national security strategy is merely further proof of this.
At first, we had trouble believing it, now it has become a part of our everyday life.
Yet we are convinced that it is still possible for Europe to act and gradually build its own defence, even if it is dispersed with its 27 Member States and as many national armed forces. It can be strong when Europeans decide to act together.
Nevertheless, there are urgent questions that need to be answered.
Will the European Union be able to free itself from dependencies on the United States and guarantee Ukraine’s and, with it, Europe’s security in the global power struggle? Will the European western democracies and eastern EU candidate countries be able to resist Russia’s interference and cognitive warfare? Will Europe be able to achieve its ambition of becoming an autonomous space power and help to ensure the continent’s security? And what about response to dangers such as the increasing extreme weather events and natural disasters resulting from climate change?
Geopolitics, space, civil protection, security and defence, these are our journal’s four main areas of analysis, examining current dangers and risks, but also, and most importantly, highlighting progress and actions taken in the right direction.
For the European News Journal’s website and our magazine issues, we reach out to our global network of renowned authors and correspondents. We would like to thank them for their valuable and generous support for our new endeavor.
Hartmut Bühl, Editorial Director & Nannette Cazaubon, Senior Managing Editor
No1/December 2025
24 pages of interviews and in-depth analyses by our editorial team, its experts and correspondents
NEW Tokyo is rethinking its approach to national security
By our Asia correspondent HIDESHI TOKUCHI, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Tokyo
NEW “Trumpism”, a full-scale ideology
Guest commentary by JEAN-DOMINIQUE GIULIANI, Robert Schuman Foundation, Paris
NEW Russian interference in Eastern Europe – how Moldova managed to resist
By MIHAI POPȘOI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, Chişinău
Europe under high geopolitical pressure – unity is more important than ever
By DAVID MCALLISTER MEP, Chair of AFET, European Parliament, Brussels/Strasbourg
NEW We cannot rely on others for our security
Interview with SEDE Chair MARIE-AGNES STRACK-ZIMMERMANN MEP, Brussels/Strasbourg
EU Presidency – Denmark’s new stance on European defence
By Nannette Cazaubon, European News Journal, Paris
NATO summit in The Hague – a great deal, but nor for Europe?
We asked General (ret.) Jean-Marc Vigilant, Paris
NEW We must gain leadership and greater autonomy in space
Interview with DR JOSEF ASCHBACHER, Director General, European Space Agency (ESA), Paris
Geopolitical competition in space – on the edge of escalation?
By PD Dr Antje Nötzold, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Munich/Chemnitz
Trump’s NASA budget cuts impact more than cooperation on space
By Sinéad O’Sullivan, Space and Defence economist, Boston
NEW Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in civil protection stays on track
A report from Barcelona by NANNETTE CAZAUBON, European News Journal, Paris
NEW CBRN protection requires constant adaptation to evolving threats
By MICHAEL HOFFMANN – Marketing Manager, Blücher GmbH, Erkrath
Wildfires in Europe – the worst season ever
By Hartmut Bühl, European News Journal, Paris
The European response to constantly evolving CBRN risks
By Nannette Cazaubon, European News Journal, Paris
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Commentary by HARTMUT BÜHL, European News Journal, Paris In Trump’s world, and in his idea of ethics, everything is for sale. He wants Greenland to become American, so he proposed to buy the large frozen island, populated by only about 57,000 inhabitants. In the mind of the American real estate…
By NANNETTE CAZAUBON – European News Journal, Paris The European Commission plans to step up Ukraine’s participation in the European space programme. A first step was taken in April 2025 with the signing of an agreement between the EU and Ukraine on the country’s participation in the Copernicus component as…
By Nannette Cazaubon, European News Journal, Paris “Europe as a space power” is the theme and vision of the 19th autumn conference of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), which will take place on 28-29 October 2025, at Vienna City Hall, Austria. The autumn conference is one of ESPI’s annual…
Nannette Cazaubon – European News Journal, Paris There was widespread relief across Europe after Moldova’s pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won a landslide victory over the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc in crucial parliamentary elections on 28 September 2025. The election result was immediately welcomed by many Western and European…
Hartmut Bühl – European News Journal, Paris The humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s unwavering determination to seize Gaza City by military force and push its population south have prompted several UN member states to add their names to the long list of countries that…
Hartmut Bühl, European News Journal, Paris Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dreams of establishing a new world order without American dominance and prioritising the “Global South” took tangible form at the 25th Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), bringing together more than 20 leaders of non-Western countries in Tianjin, China,…
Hartmut Bühl – European News Journal, Paris In the tariff war with Europe, the European Commission’s task was to prevent things from worsening. It is too easy to accuse Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission II of capitulation, as it had to align the interests of 27 nations within a crystal-clear…
Hartmut Bühl / Nannette Cazaubon – European News Journal, Paris A “truly historic” nuclear agreement, as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it, was announced in Northwood on 10 July 2025, at the end of the three-day visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to London. In response to the Russian…
