Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

12/15/2025

We are delighted to announce two new members to our Business Leadership Council!

CEPA is thrilled to announce Amb. Robert Mandell as a Founding Member of CEPA’s Business Leadership Council. As the former Ambassador to Luxembourg and current partner at Velocitas Venture, Mandell brings expertise in geopolitics and business leadership. Welcome, Robert!

CEPA is delighted to welcome Alexander B. Gray into CEPA’s Business Leadership Council. Alexander is the CEO of American Global Strategies and was formerly Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the White House National Security Council. He brings invaluable expertise in national security, defense, and technology sectors. Welcome, Alexander!

Check out CEPA.org to learn more about our Business Leadership Council!

12/15/2025

“Lukashenko is totally dependent on Russia.” Eitvydas Bajarūnas

Moscow is using Belarus to unleash swarms of balloons into Lithuania to create air-traffic chaos and find weak spots on Nato’s eastern flank

12/15/2025

"Ultimately, the last 12 years have demonstrated that Ukraine must maintain their own capabilities for national security." Steven Horrell

Cutting Ukraine's military might has been raised as one of the key points in U.S. President Donald Trump's latest push to end the war at all costs. The original 28-point peace proposal, criticized in Ukraine for aligning with Russia's sweeping demands, envisioned a 600,000-cap for the Ukrainian Arme...

12/14/2025

2026 — Europe’s Year of Living Dangerously | "Russia will step up its shadow war on Europe in the New Year, attacking infrastructure and disrupting democracy in a bid to exploit Western disunity." William Dixon and Maksym Beznosiuk

Russia will step-up its shadow war on Europe in the New Year, attacking infrastructure and disrupting democracy to exploit Western disunity.

12/14/2025

How Russian Drone Developers Outpace the West | "Russia’s Geran attack drones have morphed from crude versions of Iranian Shahed UAVs into an affordable and flexible strike system, with deadly results." Federico Borsari https://cepa.org/article/how-russian-drone-developers-outpace-the-west/

12/14/2025

Tech Antitrust Slams Into An AI Wall | "European and American regulators attempting to rein in Silicon Valley’s largest digital platforms find themselves playing catch-up to innovation." Elly Rostoum

European and American regulators trying to rein in Silicon Valley’s largest digital platforms find themselves playing catch-up to innovation.

12/13/2025

European NATO’s Warriors and Peaceniks | "Although NATO has agreed new long-term defense spending objectives, some are enthusiasts and some are not." Heine Brekke and Francis Harris https://cepa.org/article/european-natos-warriors-and-peaceniks/

12/13/2025

“Are Europeans willing to abide by Article 5 of NATO and provide assistance to the country attacked by Russia?” said Nicolas Tenzer. “Certainly, we perfectly know that the U.S won’t go because we cannot trust the U.S. anymore — basically, I think that the transatlantic link is really broken.”

A voluntary military program that pledges to train 50,000 young people in the next 10 years has garnered widespread support across France as a growing unease settles over the continent.

12/13/2025

Why Russia is So Resilient | "Outsiders have misread the Russian system and why it functions despite the pressures of wartime." Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov

Outsiders have misread the Russian system and why the Kremlin still functions despite the pressures of wartime.

12/12/2025

“Russia is in a state of war with the West… from the Russian perspective, it is the same war,” Sam Greene

CEPA, a leading European security think tank, told the UK Defence Journal that Irish neutrality has no impact on Russian actions against the country or Europe as a whole.

12/12/2025

"China is using Russia as a tool to fragment the West." Nicolas Tenzer

Experts interviewed by RFE/RL doubt Beijing will honor European appeals to influence Moscow amid a new push to end the war in Ukraine, even though the EU is one of China’s largest trading partners.

12/10/2025