France’s CAR Visit After Seven Years Tests Russian Mineral Dominance
The renewed diplomatic participation between Paris and Bangui is an indication of a change in the trend in the region where relations have been deteriorating in the past decade. The CAR Visit After Seven Years of France is the first top-level political interaction between the two governments since the end of the 2010s, during which […]
UK’s €540M Funds France Patrols: Effective Deterrent or Smugglers’ Subsidy?
In London and Paris, collaboration on these Channel migration operations was strengthened with small-boat crossings persisting to increase in 2024 and 2025. The move by the UK to invest about EUR540 million towards French patrol activities was one of the largest bilateral security expenditures along the northern European coast. The financing is an economic estimate: […]
