A growing body of evidence suggests that financial markets may be doing more than reacting to geopolitical shocks. In several recent cases, they appear to have anticipated them. That raises a harder question than legality. If trading activity reveals patterns
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Baltic Sea naval modernisation is building a layered regional architecture. Crewed vessels are being renewed for patrol, mine warfare, and air defence. Coastal and land-based missile forces are expanding. Submarines remain central to intelligence and deterrence. Unmanned systems are emerging
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Ukraine’s drone strike on Russia’s Primorsk and Ust-Luga oil terminals has pushed the war into the narrow waters of the Gulf of Finland, less than 50 kilometres from NATO territory, and exposed a critical vulnerability in Moscow’s Baltic export system.
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The first BEDEX functioned more as a political-industrial meeting point, less as a traditional arms fair. NATO messaging, European defence industrial cooperation and supply-chain building all converged in Brussels. BEDEX served mainly as a venue for industrial cooperation announcements rather
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Denmark went to the polls on amid heightened warnings of foreign interference, with intelligence services and European analysts pointing to sustained Russian influence activity in the final phase of the campaign. There is evidence of foreign attempts to interfere in
EU industry leaders warn of strategic vulnerability while US officials unveil financing tools to secure supply chains: Remaining passive is no longer an option. Europe is Late in the Game, discussions at Giga Europe 2026 in Brussels revealed. Europe’s vulnerability
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Sweden’s Saab AB, Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen and Finland’s Patria each delivered outstanding results in 2025, reflecting a historic surge in European defence demand. All three reported double-digit revenue growth and record order backlogs. Together, they captured numerous major contracts and
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Keir Giles’s Who Will Defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent argues that Europe has spent three decades behaving as if history had ended, while Russia did the opposite. The Sleeping Continent is a verdict on political leadership,
If we want lasting peace, we cannot reward aggression. Because if aggression pays off, then aggression will continue, reminded, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas in Zurich. Historically, empires change only when they lose their
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The renewed threat of disruption to the Strait of Hormuz is again reminding defence planners of the vulnerability of global energy logistics in major conflicts. Naval modernisation is increasingly tied not only to weapons and sensors but also to energy
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