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This article examines how the Union pursues security in a region where it holds territory but no seat, and argues that in the High North the EU’s influence stems not from membership but from partnership - and that partnership, however close, confers influence rather than control.

How an european union of states that casts no ballot became a significant presence in the UN system, and why its member states’ coherence now matters more than before.

August 22, 2026, was expected to be a turning point in relations between Canada and the United States. The increasingly tense trade conflict between the two North American countries, which had been ongoing for more than a year and a half, was supposed to reach a breakthrough with the announcement of the terms of a new agreement governing the exchange of goods between the two countries.

This essay aims to delineate the four roads that Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein have undertaken towards the single market, and to justify that the line separating mere market access from full integration is today being renegotiated from opposite directions at once.

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