"Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on the possibilities for peace" foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/tru…

"The best candidate, at least for the near term, has granular understanding of existing forces and informal links to suppliers" defenseone.com/ideas/2025/07/…

"Those are two useful steps, but the question that the White House should be asking is what steps might eventually force Putin to accept the compromise peace that Trump has advocated since before taking office" atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

"The French president also insisted there’s still time to negotiate" politico.eu/article/macron…

"Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?" foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/tur…

"Ukraine has witnessed an eruption of public anger not seen since before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022" worldpoliticsreview.com/ukraine-zelens…

"One way or other, it looks like Russia could soon be slapped with a fresh round of U.S. sanctions" theconversation.com/sanctioning-gh…

"Europe’s lost economic competitiveness has become a stark geopolitical weakness" gmfus.org/news/united-st…

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"Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “asteroid” for the industry" politico.eu/article/europe…

"America knew the EU was weak. The rest of the world knows it now" ft.com/content/698517…

"It’s a tough time for the world’s more vulnerable nations—except in the EU’s embrace" foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/eur…

"In Germany, this emerging climate reality has underscored the challenges confronting the newly elected coalition government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz" worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-merz-c…

"Trading partners from Taiwan to Canada hit with steep new levies" ft.com/content/f9cec1…

"Disagreements over steel, pharma, and alcohol exports “reflect the extremely short time-frame and generally chaotic nature of the deal – if you want to call it that, because it’s not really a deal,” one analyst noted" euractiv.com/section/econom…

"Trump’s tariffs are aimed at ostensibly boosting US production and fostering a “local for locals” sensibility. Except, it turns out that several American product staples are actually... "Made in Europe"?" euronews.com/business/2025/…

"Europe may have dodged a trade war with the US, but without urgent electricity market reform, its industrial competitiveness remains dangerously exposed to fossil fuel volatility" euractiv.com/section/eet/op…

"Denmark has reframed the debate on migration by adopting highly restrictive rules presented through the lens of progressive politics" euronews.com/my-europe/2025…

"Olivier Guersent is stepping down after five years leading the bloc’s powerful competition department" ft.com/content/b7186c…

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