Europe Intelligence Brief
Europe Intelligence Brief for Thursday: a day of summits and reckonings — France's Macron hosted Italy's Meloni for their first...
June 25, 2026Section
Europe Politics & Security
From the war in Ukraine and NATO’s eastern edge to Britain’s churn and the rise of Europe’s new political blocs, the continent’s security and politics are being rewritten. The Rio Times covers the elections, alliances, defense and policy shifts shaping Europe – and how they ripple into the Global South and Latin America.
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Macron and Meloni Are Opposites. They Just Found Reasons to Agree.
Two ideological opposites held their first summit in Antibes, united by defence, space and a shared wish to block the...
June 25, 2026
Seven Leaders in a Decade: Britain’s Instability and What It Costs
Britain is about to get its seventh leader in ten years, and already pays the highest borrowing costs in the...
June 24, 2026
France at Two Speeds: Record Company Failures Beside a Vast AI Bet
France is failing and booming at once: company collapses sit near record highs while a Japanese group pledges 75 billion...
June 24, 2026
The Market Goes to War: Europe Funds Rearmament on the Bourse
Europe is paying for rearmament a new way: floating a state-backed tank maker. The KNDS listing shows how a continent...
June 24, 2026
The Day the AI Trade Turned: One Shock, Four Very Different Markets
A single doubt about AI-chip valuations swept four markets in one day, from a ten percent crash in Seoul to...
June 23, 2026
Europe Intelligence Brief
Europe Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: a global chip slide hit Europe through ASML, its most valuable company, as Germany handed...
June 23, 2026
Switzerland Falls, Hong Kong Rises: The Wealth Crown Changes Hands
Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the world's largest cross-border wealth hub, and the reasons explain where the money of...
June 20, 2026
Germany’s Industrial Reckoning: When Europe’s Engine Stalls
German industry employment has fallen to a ten-year low as the country's model of cheap energy and easy exports breaks...
June 19, 2026