Writing on European power, strategic autonomy, and the real balance of forces shaping the world order.https://philippkrueger.com/en-ushttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/default-to-europe/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/default-to-europe/Euro-Office just shipped. Europe can celebrate it. Now write the rules that make it win.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/europe-legislated-china-built/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/europe-legislated-china-built/The EU AI Act was the right instinct and the wrong strategy. Europe regulated before it built, did it alone, and is now surprised to find the rules aren't working.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/borrowed-armies-borrowed-minds/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/borrowed-armies-borrowed-minds/For decades Europe delegated its defense to Washington and, quietly, its judgment too. Ukraine is the cost of the first failure. Our confusion about China is the cost of the second.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/united-or-irrelevant/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/united-or-irrelevant/The case for deeper European integration has nothing to do with ideology. It is a structural response to a world that has stopped waiting for Europeans to make up their minds.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/ai-factory-problem/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/ai-factory-problem/The EU is building 19 AI factories across 16 member states. The instinct is correct. The architecture is a disaster.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/merz/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/merz/Friedrich Merz speaks about power differently than his predecessors. Rhetoric is the precondition, not the achievement. Six months in, the preconditions exist. The test comes next.Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/the-shakedown/https://philippkrueger.com/politics/writing/the-shakedown/Liberation Day was not a trade policy. It was a demonstration - of what happens to countries that have no answer to economic coercion. Europe watched, got a 90-day reprieve it did not earn, and learned nothing.Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT