It is hard to think of the disappearance of the largest country by area in the world as a credible scenario. Yet the premise of Russia’s collapse has long haunted Russians, just as it stirred the West’s imagination.

How to create a concrete and ambitious climate club including Europe and Northeast Asia?

Europe faces a long-term resilience and competitiveness challenge, for which it has two main tools to act: industrial policies and controls over technology transfers. 

Europe is right to worry that the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) could harm Europe’s clean tech industry. But relying on the US to grant exemptions to EU companies will not solve the problem.

As voters head to the polls on May 14 to elect their president, Turkey is entering a particularly heated election cycle just one month after the tragedy. How could recent earthquakes affect the vote?

François Godement, Institut Montaigne’s Senior Advisor for Asia, assesses the characteristics and flaws of China’s stimulus plan, and of the overall Chinese economic model.