The Commission's first 100 days in office have marked a strategic shift for Europe. Europe is seeking to strengthen its position in an increasingly competitive world through rearmament, economic autonomy and less bureaucracy. MEP Jonás Fernández proposes a new 'Single Act' as the only way to guarantee Europe's competitiveness and strategic autonomy in the face of internal and external challenges.

Pedro Fresco, a leading expert on energy transition, argues that Franco-Spanish collaboration should go beyond the energy sector to promote ecological transformation and reinforce Europe's strategic autonomy in a context of growing geopolitical instability.

IE University Professor Ilke Toygür contends that as long as Trump remains in office, the US is not a reliable ally but a predatory power. In response, the EU should kickstart a dialogue with China, work on green finance and trade agreements, and focus on its security, without leaving behind the issues of arms control.

The communication onslaught and the growing dependence on Chinese and American social networks are forcing Europe to rethink its digital strategy and the possibility of developing its own platform based on the EU's core values. Beatriz Gallardo, Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Valencia, analyses this issue in depth.

Geostrategist Adam Casals weighs in on the current debate over Europe's need to arm itself with nuclear weapons. He calls for European political leaders and societies alike to rethink "the security prospects of the continent".

The Vice President of the European Parliament Javi López warns that the withdrawal of the US from the transatlantic consensuses makes the "strategic emancipation of Europe" undelayable. He proposes a new global axis of stability with Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Latin American democracies.

The editor and director of 'Agenda Pública' advocates collaboration between institutions and companies so that "Spain and Spanish capital can participate in the European consolidation of our strategic sectors with a position of strength". There are names that belong to this Spanish industrial policy that must contribute to European strategic autonomy.

The international liberal order was buried yesterday in the Oval Office, where Trump's televised outburst at Zelenski marked its demise. Juan Luis Manfredi, Professor of Journalism and International Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, warns: "these are not good times". The consequences are still unpredictable.

Viktor Orbán and Giorgia Meloni represent two different forms of leadership on the European right, marked by their political trajectories, the history of their countries and their relationship with EU institutions. Antonio López-Istúriz White, MEP for the Spanish Partido Popular, opens the EU Public Agenda section with his analysis from Brussels.

Marca España. We talk to Mateo Valero, the director of the European supercomputer of reference: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). We address some of the main political and economic priorities of the moment: the development of European Artificial Intelligence, the role of the State and of large Spanish companies in contributing to our leadership and the need for diplomatic support to boost our industrial development. "If the market is protected," he warns, "in ten years’ time we can have better chips than anyone else." It's our big opportunity.

The European Union has fallen completely behind in the race to develop artificial intelligence. However, Faÿçal Hafied, author of 'A National Deep Tech Strategy for Spain' report for the Elcano Royal Institute, argues that DeepSeek opens up a frugal path that could see Europe make up lost ground.

Agenda Pública travels to Milan to visit Uljan Sharka, the founder of iGenius, one of the main European unicorns of Artificial Intelligence, and to address in depth the future of this technology in its utopian and dystopian aspects. Sharka proposes solutions: the European Union, he says, still has time to lead a model that protects human freedom and improves workers' conditions.

Paolo Gerbaudo, senior researcher in social sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, warns that in the face of Trump's second-term foreign and trade policy, Europe must adopt a strategy of 'triangulation' as a bloc in the face of 'moral Atlanticism'.

Following his recent calls with Putin and Zelenskyy, Trump is pushing for peace negotiations in Ukraine. But competing interests open up different scenarios. From Kyiv, Ihor Petrenko, director of United Ukraine, analyses possible outcomes.

Israel has initiated the second phase of its plan to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, warns Félix Vacas. The Associate Professor of Public International Law at Universidad Carlos III argues that this stage will be even more complex, as it requires international support, and that the European Union can play a key role in preventing its implementation.

Donald Trump's second term reinforces policies that challenge the fight against climate change, but the reality of its economic and environmental impacts is inescapable. Ana Barreira, lawyer and director of iidma, analyses the risks of this approach.

Donald Trump's second arrival in the presidency marks a turning point for Ukraine's defence. Ihor Petrenko, director of the United Ukraine think tank, analyses the impact of the Republican's foreign policy on the country's future.

According to Juan Luis Manfredi, former Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University, Trump's intervention at the Davos Forum reflects "a world of non-market risks, state-backed capitalism, and 'reliable' energy."

President Trump's announcement that he will "definitely" impose tariffs similar to those of Canada and Mexico on the EU should "alarm us", according to Thorsten Benner. The expert from the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin argues that now Europe must take responsibility for its own security.

In just Trump's first week back in Washington D.C., US supremacy over China in the AI race has been put in check, one of Biden's key legacies. Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, analyses this impact.

The fourth party in the European Parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, has appointed former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki of the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party as its president, succeeding Giorgia Meloni. Carolina Plaza, professor of political science at the University of Salamanca, warns that this reflects "the acceptance of the extreme right in European politics."

Weber gives in to the Spanish PP's initiatives in the knowledge that he needs the Spaniards to revalidate his position in the May congress. If they turn against him and join others that oppose him, such as the Dutch, some Scandinavian leaders or Greece, his position would hang in the balance.

The transition period in the US government is evidence, according to experts Juan Luis Manfredi and J. P. Carroll, that Donald Trump will focus his attention on Latin America as part of his new foreign policy. In their analysis, they break down the five main keys that will define this approach.

He is the European politician who first confronted Elon Musk. Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union during the previous legislature, talks exclusively to Agenda Pública at a key moment and where it is debated whether the legislation he promoted can protect the Union from the obvious external interference. His goal? "To protect users and maintain transparency in the digital age."

She is one of the most influential political operators in the Brussels “bubble”. She has participated in all the important negotiations of the European Union in recent years. In the last one, which we have analyzed extensively in Agenda Pública, avoiding what she considers “an institutional crisis” due to the attempt of the Spanish Popular Party to “overthrow the Spanish proposal of Teresa Ribera as executive vice-president of the Commission” and that “Europe did not have a government”.

With Donald Trump set to return to office, Europe faces critical decisions on trade and security. Jakob Hensing, Thorsten Benner and Florian Klumpp from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, argue European leaders must swiftly negotiate with Trump to protect their interests and address the growing challenge of China.

Musk's statements on X, and Meta's decision to end strict content verification, are the beginning of a Trump-backed battle to avoid EU regulation. Bernardo de Miguel, a long-time correspondent in Brussels, says that "the defenestration of Commissioner Thierry Breton and the low profile of the current Commission in the face of Musk's interference indicate that Von der Leyen is trying to avoid a head-on clash with the US."

The director of Agenda Pública, Marc López Plana, wonders where Spanish politics stands in the face of Elon Musk's 'entry' into the Spanish public debate through the migration debate and public safety in Catalonia. Our director points out that "the underlying issue is that a businessman is using the technological alteration of the platform he acquired, and an algorithm designed to do away with the logic of basic competition in liberal democracies and to condition the development of democracy in Europe as well."

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado talks to Agenda Pública in a crucial week for her country. She says she is ready to govern and asserts that the Maduro regime has lost all its strength. "The future of democracy in Latin America is being decided in Venezuela today," she says.

The former Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister argues that the European Union must seize the moment to move forward in its integration and regain control of its own future. In this project, according to the now Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, Spain is prepared to play a fundamental role, taking advantage of its economic strength and taking a step forward in the midst of a Franco-German axis in decline.