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Europe’s protectionist turn challenges Japan
Scott Foster argues that Europe’s efforts to shield its automotive industry through local-content requirements and subsidy restrictions are creating new challenges for Japanese manufacturers. As European competitiveness weakens and governments embrace more interventionist industrial policies, Japan faces mounting barriers in a market that remains strategically important despite its declining global economic weight.
Germany’s emigration problem is a human-capital warning sign
Diego Faßnacht contends that Germany’s migration balance obscures a deeper problem: the country is losing educated, productive taxpayers while relying on immigration flows that often require costly and lengthy integration. The result is a gradual erosion of the human capital base that underpins Germany’s welfare state and long-term economic competitiveness.
Russia and Ukraine’s hardliners are fueling each other’s rise
James Davis reports that escalating drone attacks, continued battlefield attrition and stalled diplomacy are strengthening hardline factions on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Ukrainian advocates of escalation hope harsher Russian responses will draw greater Western involvement, while Russia’s “party of war” increasingly argues that military escalation is the only viable answer to continued Ukrainian and Western pressure.
