The mass arrival of migrants and incursions by Moroccan naval vessels appear to suggest a coordinated operation to put pressure on Spain. But the scale of the crisis and its coincidence with Gianni Infantino's visit point to other possible explanations. In his weekly column, Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', argues that "the concentration of power does not guarantee absolute control". Was Ceuta a show of strength or a crisis that spiralled beyond Morocco's control?

In October 1996, Bill Clinton announced in Detroit his commitment to expanding NATO into Central and Eastern Europe. With its large Polish-American community, the city was no accidental choice. In this conversation with Marc López Plana, Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro explains to the editor and director of 'Agenda Pública' how US electoral calculations helped shape a decision that would transform European security.

The Houthi offensive in Yemen and attacks on Saudi Arabia have prompted the European Parliament to call for the group to be added to the EU's list of terrorist organisations. Hana Jalloul, a Socialist MEP and the lead negotiator on the resolution, calls for stronger maritime security. Despite the EU's limitations in foreign affairs, Jalloul, the first vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, argues that Europe must "take the lead in adopting firm positions on today's geopolitical challenges".

A conversation in New Haven between Marc López Plana and Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro about the collapse of the neoliberal consensus, the mistakes of the left, the rise of the radical right and Pedro Sánchez's decision to call an early election. The editor and director of 'Agenda Pública' meets a Shapiro who believes Europe faces a historic opportunity, but fears its leaders may squander it once again.

Israelis go to the polls on 27 October amid a profound transformation of the Middle Eastern order. Emma Sky, a regional expert and former adviser to US forces in Iraq, offers a central insight into the election: Israel's military superiority has failed to guarantee its security or establish a stable regional environment. Drawing on her analysis, Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', examines an election that could bring Benjamin Netanyahu's time in power to an end.

The Industrial Accelerator Act must address competition from abroad without fuelling an internal battle for investment. Regions will be crucial to turning reindustrialisation into a European project. "Legislation intended to strengthen the bloc could spark internal disputes if its benefits depend too heavily on each member state's budget and political influence," writes Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública'.

With Spain’s 29 November general election approaching, Javi López, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Dave Keating, France 24’s Brussels correspondent, speak with Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', about the fragile majority supporting Ursula von der Leyen and Pedro Sánchez’s role in European politics. As Keating puts it: "Sánchez is something of the last man standing".

Carlos Díaz-Rosillo, former White House Director of Policy and Interagency Coordination, speaks with 'Agenda Pública' staff-writer Jorge de Diego at Foro La Toja about the future of tariffs, relations with Europe and competition with China. The former Donald Trump adviser explains why he believes the president has strengthened NATO and how personal relationships shape Trump's negotiating strategy. He also discusses Cuba, where he predicts political change: "I'm convinced there will be a change."

Morocco has a woman at the head of government for the first time, although the change has its limits. "Real progress will be measured by concrete legislative and executive achievements," writes Inmaculada Szmolka, Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada. As she explains, the new four-party coalition faces major social reforms under the oversight of King Mohammed VI.

The European Union is in the final stages of designing a new policy to face its industrial crisis. Tristan Beucler, an industry analyst at Strategic Perspectives, highlights the remaining disagreements as well as avenues to build a strong coalition to pass the Industrial Accelerator Act by the beginning of next year. The EU’s ability to manufacture its most strategic technologies and materials may depend on governments and Members of the European Parliament finding common ground.

Moroccan naval vessels entered Spanish waters during the Ceuta crisis, raising questions that go beyond government transparency. Pedro Sánchez opted for discretion to avoid an escalation with Morocco, but took a considerable political risk. Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', draws on the Perejil Island crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis to explore the limits of shows of force.

For Dave Keating, the departure of Pedro Sánchez, the last European leader to firmly defend the centre-left, could lead to the collapse of the European Union's historic centrist grand coalition and pave the way, for the first time, for a governing majority that includes the far right. The Brussels-based writer and journalist warns that the Spanish prime minister's downfall could trigger a crisis in the EU capital unlike anything seen this century.

With the Alliance focused on Russia and its eastern flank, the migration crisis in Ceuta is testing NATO's solidarity with Spain. Nicolás Fernández de Bobadilla, a specialist in EU diplomatic relations, argues that "part of the solution to the situation in Ceuta must and will come from Brussels" and explains why a more European NATO would have reasons to support Ceuta and Melilla.

Reindustrialisation is back at the heart of the European agenda. But Europe's ability to compete will depend not only on the rules adopted in Brussels, but also on how they are put into practice on the ground. Our latest Microspace event in Brussels, focusing on the Industrial Accelerator Act, highlighted the role of regions in developing specialised industries, attracting investment and implementing an industrial policy that can also serve as a tool for territorial cohesion.

She is considered the elected leader of Belarus. Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya, a speaker at the La Toja Forum, speaks with the director and editor of 'Agenda Pública', Marc López Plana. Familiar with the Kremlin’s methods of pressure, she analyses tools such as migration pressure. Domestically, she explains the obstacles Alexander Lukashenko’s government places in the opposition’s way and praises Spain’s role: "When democracy eventually prevails in Belarus, Spain will have been part of that story", she says.

Journalist Nick Malkoutzis analyses Andy Burnham’s political shift. In his first Labour conference speech as prime minister, Burnham argued that "Brexit has done more harm than good" and set out far-reaching changes on social care, pensions, electoral reform and the UK’s relationship with the European Union.

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a pace that is multiplying both its applications and the questions surrounding its effects. European People's Party MEP Adrián Vázquez brings the debate opened this September by Dario Amodei into broader concerns about employment, the concentration of power, global security and the erosion of attention.

Yabloko's exclusion leaves Russia's elections without the only nationwide list advocating a ceasefire. Egor Kuroptev, director of the EK Strategic Communications Center, examines how a majority is manufactured for Putin and warns Europe: interpreting a result obtained through coercion and fraud as evidence that Russians support the war "turns the Kremlin's domestic coercion into international legitimacy".

Can a democracy think long term when politics is focused on the next crisis? Florence Gaub, director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College, explains how the Alliance works with future scenarios, why biases matter as much as data and what risks she sees in the relationship with Russia. "Wars begin before the first shot," she warns in this conversation with 'Agenda Pública's' director and editor, Marc López Plana.

Economist Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a confirmed speaker at La Toja Forum 2026, rejects the most extreme forecasts about employment: "I don't myself think it will be a job apocalypse of the kind that some of the AI leaders have been talking about." In this conversation with 'Agenda Pública', she offers an in-depth analysis of the future of artificial intelligence and argues that the challenge will be how to distribute the productivity gains it generates.

Jorge de Diego, a staff writer at 'Agenda Pública', speaks in Strasbourg with EPP MEP Adrián Vázquez and S&D MEPs Hana Jalloul, Javi López and Jonás Fernández about Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address and the future of the European parliamentary term. Representatives of the European Parliament's two largest political groups highlight the importance of the EU's next budget and analyse the Ceuta crisis.

Ursula von der Leyen wants to bring the relationship with Canada "to the highest level possible" and has opened the door to making the country the European Union's first "associate member". Nicolás Fernández de Bobadilla, a specialist in European Union diplomatic relations, analyses the scope and obstacles of a proposal that has yet to be defined.

An Anthropic report documents the use of Claude for surveillance, espionage, propaganda and weapons development. Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública, examines in his weekly column how this private power is transforming the intelligence cycle and warns: "Europe must prevent dependence on these technologies from ultimately limiting its political autonomy as well."

9/11 caught J.P. Carroll when he was eight years old and attending school in McLean, Virginia, just a few miles from the Pentagon. Twenty-five years later, the 'Agenda Pública' columnist looks back on a day marked by silence, fear and loss, but also by one conviction: it was "an attack on love, hope, and on dreams". "And that’s why it failed," he writes.

The 52nd edition of the Cernobbio Forum brought together over 200 business executives, academics, diplomats, ministers, and prime ministers from six states; the President of the European Council Antonio Costa; European Commissioner Jessika Roswal; former minister Arancha González Laya; European Union rapporteur Enrico Letta; Valerio di Molli, CEO of Ambrosetti; and other attendees from China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Europe, and the United States for three days. Nacho Corredor, Vicechairman of beBartlet, was one of a dozen Spaniards who participated in a new edition marked by global uncertainty: "We are a superpower despite the victimhood that we Europeans have woven over our own public debate," he points out.

OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures and one of the confirmed speakers at the Foro La Toja 2026 speaks with Marc Berruezo, director of beBartlet Intelligence, about the future of work, power, geopolitics and the risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence. Among the scenarios he considers, Ball suggests that "perhaps it becomes a luxury to interact with another human being".

J.P. Carroll, an 'Agenda Pública' columnist, looks back from Washington, D.C., on Harald V's life, shaped from childhood by his ties to the United States, and reflects on his approach to leadership during some of Norway's most difficult moments. "Hopefully this new generation of royals will continue to lead as he did: with heart, humility, and trust in their people."

Egor Kuroptev, a Russian analyst and director of the EK Strategic Communications Center, examines the current state of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from Moscow’s perspective. Following John Ratcliffe’s visit to the Kremlin, he argues that "the Kremlin's domestic logic connects directly with the risk of military escalation in Europe" and adds that the Russian government "increasingly needs the war not to end".

The United States marks 250 years of an idea that has never fully matched its own reality. From the Founding Fathers to the struggle for civil rights, J. P. Carroll, analyst in Washington, D.C., explores the contradictions of that promise and asks what the anniversary means for Spain. His answer shifts the focus away from governments and diplomats towards a relationship also built by citizens, students, businesses, writers, and artists.

The Ceuta crisis has turned disinformation, border control and the European response into a single political battle. Hana Jalloul, a PSOE MEP, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and a member of the S&D Group, argues that the answer is not to pit security against human rights, but to strengthen cooperation, anticipate disinformation and build a genuinely common migration policy in the European Union.