Ukraine’s Upcoming 5G Auction: Trust, Rules, Money

For most of the past two years, Ukraine’s telecommunications policy has been viewed through the lens of wartime resilience. Keeping networks operating amid missile attacks, restoring damaged infrastructure and ensuring continuity of government communications...

The Black Sea Region – NATO’s Strategic Test

The security environment in the Black Sea region continues to deteriorate. Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports and maritime infrastructure, together with incidents affecting NATO Allies and European partners across the region, show that the...

Towards a More Realistic EU China Debate

One major focus of autumnal Brussels trade and industrial policy conversation will be relations with China and the belief that protection is needed to avoid economic doom. Much of this debate unfortunately rests on...

New study reveals hidden economic and environmental costs of soil compaction in Europe

A new open-access study co-authored by FARMWISE researcher Landon J. S. Halloran has used a continent-scale modelling framework to investigate how soil compaction could affect European agriculture and the wider environment under future climate...

Policy and practice watch:

Questions FARMWISE shares with the EU CAP Network Every so often a newsletter lands in the inbox that feels less like external news and more like a mirror held up to your own work....

From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026

Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can...