The current world order is in turmoil, and the long-held dream of world peace and human coexistence across borders and continents has been shattered. Wars are once again being considered and planned. And, once again, they are being waged. European News Journal – a new publication that we are launching after 17 years of running an award-winning magazine promoting a European Security and Defence Union – covers these worrying new developments in a faster, more specific and more tailored way…
We maintain our geopolitical focus, placing particular emphasis on the European Union as a geopolitical actor in the current global power struggle. We will focus specifically on the efforts of NATO and EU Member States to build a common defence capability and armament policy that will enable Europe to respond to threats and give it the strength to be taken seriously as a reliable partner.
In addition, we will introduce our readers to space as a strategic instrument of security and defence policy and highlight its role in civil protection, an area that is becoming increasingly important due to the dramatic consequences of climate change, which threatens the lives of populations, the socio-economic development of countries and exacerbates conflicts related to water scarcity and climate migration.
And last but not least, we will continue to reach out to our global network of renowned authors and correspondents to contribute to our new website and magazine. We look forward to presenting the first issue of our European News Journal in October/November 2025 and welcome your feedback.
In the meantime, enjoy the news, articles and interviews on our website, which we will update regularly.
Hartmut Bühl, Editorial Director & Nannette Cazaubon, Senior Editor
Trump – invincible and impermeable?
We asked Prof Dr THOMAS JÄGER from the University of Cologne
A red carpet for Putin and uncertainties about Ukraine’s future
Commentary by HARTMUT BÜHL, European News Journal, Paris
Wartime challenges for the Black Sea states
By our Eastern Europe correspondent Prof IOAN MIRCEA PAȘCU, Bucharest
The end of the peace dividend: are we on our way to a European Defence Union?
We asked Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann MEP, Chair SEDE committee, Brussels
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
Geopolitical competition in space – on the edge of escalation?
By PD Dr Antje Nötzold – Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Munich/Chemnitz
How is ESA adapting to the new geopolitical realities?
We asked Dr Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, Paris
Trump’s NASA budget cuts impact more than cooperation on space
By Sinéad O’Sullivan, Space and Defence economist, Boston
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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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…
