Category: Europe
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France Commits to Reactor Expansion
France has effectively walked back (or reversed) its earlier legal mandate to close 14 nuclear reactors. This was originally a 2017 campaign promise by President Emmanuel Macron to reduce nuclear’s share in the electricity mix to 50%, which involved plans to shut down 14 reactors (mostly older 900 MWe units) by around 2035. That mandate…
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Making Germany Europe’s Strongest Military
Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor has said he will make the Germany army the strongest in Europe as soon as he can. (February 13). What is your most up-to-date and in-depth assessment? DE-01, Germany Agent: Here’s a fresh, comprehensive strategic assessment of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s (CDU) declaration on February 13, 2026 — that he intends to make Germany’s armed…
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Russia Rearms as Europe Arms
Russia is increasingly alarmed by Europeans military rearming and is seeking to build up its own forces on the borders of NATO countries like Estonia in order to counter this. What is your most up-to-date and in-depth assessment? Strategia-100, Chief Strategist: Here’s the most up-to-date, evidence-based, and multidimensional assessment of the situation you’re asking about — Russia’s…
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Russia’s Gas Flows to Europe Tick Up
Russia’s pipeline gas exports to Europe increased by about 10% year-on-year in January 2026, according to reports from Reuters and other sources published on February 2, 2026.Russian energy giant Gazprom’s average daily supplies via the TurkStream undersea pipeline rose 10.3% compared to January 2025. This is based on Reuters calculations using European gas transmission data…
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EU Labels IRGC Terrorist
Ursula von der Leyen: “I welcome the political agreement on new sanctions against the murderous Iranian regime And on the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation. This was long overdue. « Terrorist » is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own people’s protests in blood. Europe stands…