Cultivating Europe

Volume 1 Issue 5

Sep - Oct 2025

The Argument

Engaging Europe amid Global Turbulence

From the Editor

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Geopolitically speaking, Europe and India stand at critical crossroads today. Europe is grappling with renewed assertiveness from emerging powers, internal political recalibrations within the continent, and a rapidly unravelling multilateral order. India is carefully navigating regional and global geopolitical uncertainties and is choosing to be more multi-aligned, moving more decisively into the Indo-Pacific, negotiating FTAs, and managing the rapidly rising China challenge in the region and beyond.

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| September 4, 2025

The Last Word

Adding insult to injury, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” ideologues have intervened brazenly in Europe’s domestic politics. The U.S. State Department—once fond of lecturing non-Western nations on human rights—has turned its gaze on European democracies, raising alarms about restrictions on free speech. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly scolded Europe for abandoning “classical Western values”