Explainers

Complex issues, made clear. Explainers break down Europe’s politics, laws, and global conflicts into sharp, accessible guides without losing depth.

When the Cloud Sneezes: Amazon’s Global Outage Shows How Small the Internet Really Is AWS outage 2025: A ghostlike figure taking a selfie under hanging spiders, symbolizing digital disruption during a global cloud failure.

AWS outage 2025: A ghostlike figure taking a selfie under hanging spiders, symbolizing digital disruption during a global cloud failure.

When the Cloud Sneezes: Amazon’s Global Outage Shows How Small the Internet Really Is

PeanutsChoice 20/10/2025

AWS outage 2025 disrupted online systems across continents, exposing how fragile the global cloud ecosystem remains when...

Nexperia Explained: Why the Netherlands Took Control in 2025 Nexperia Netherlands semiconductor plant under EU blue tones symbolizing European tech sovereignty with Citizen of Europe logo.

Nexperia Explained: Why the Netherlands Took Control in 2025

PeanutsChoice 17/10/2025

Nexperia Netherlands intervention marks a turning point in Europe’s tech sovereignty. Discover how the Dutch state stepped...

Ukraine War Attrition Phase: NATO Warns of Ammunition Supply Gaps Ukraine war attrition phase logistics scene showing supply trucks and empty ammunition crates under gray skies, symbolizing strain on NATO and Ukraine’s defense supply lines.

Ukraine war attrition phase logistics scene showing supply trucks and empty ammunition crates under gray skies, symbolizing strain on NATO and Ukraine’s defense supply lines.

Ukraine War Attrition Phase: NATO Warns of Ammunition Supply Gaps

PeanutsChoice 10/10/2025

Ukraine war attrition phase deepens as NATO warns of shrinking ammunition reserves and industrial fatigue. Alliance officials...

Coded Male: The AI Systems That Don’t See Women AI gender bias systems — a professional woman illuminated by digital code and red light representing algorithmic bias

AI gender bias systems — a professional woman illuminated by digital code and red light representing algorithmic bias

Coded Male: The AI Systems That Don’t See Women

PeanutsChoice 09/10/2025

AI gender bias systems quietly exclude women — from healthcare to hiring. Citizen of Europe investigates how...

Vuelta Protests in Spain: Sánchez, Sport, and Europe’s Double Standards Vuelta protests Spain with cyclists racing in Madrid under police lights, symbolizing political tensions and Europe’s double standards

Vuelta protests Spain with cyclists racing in Madrid under police lights, symbolizing political tensions and Europe’s double standards

Vuelta Protests in Spain: Sánchez, Sport, and Europe’s Double Standards

PeanutsChoice 16/09/2025

Vuelta protests in Spain forced the race to stop. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez praised demonstrators, sparking political...

Drones Over Poland: From Border Incursions to the Heart of Warsaw Drones over Poland — a Eurofighter Typhoon jet over Warsaw at sunset, symbolizing NATO’s defense against Russian drone incursions.

Drones over Poland — a Eurofighter Typhoon jet over Warsaw at sunset, symbolizing NATO’s defense against Russian drone incursions.

Drones Over Poland: From Border Incursions to the Heart of Warsaw

PeanutsChoice 16/09/2025

Drones over Poland: UK Typhoons join NATO after Russian incursions, while a drone over Warsaw shows Europe’s...

EU Climate Divide: Member States Stall on 2040 Goa EU climate target delay — black and white photo of industrial smokestacks with Citizen of Europe logo

EU Climate Divide: Member States Stall on 2040 Goa

PeanutsChoice 14/09/2025

EU climate target delay — France, Poland, and Italy block full 2040 deal, stalling Europe’s pledge to...

Who Guards Justice? The Dutch Push to Strip Ministers of Prosecutorial Power Ministerial influence on prosecutors – Lady Justice statue symbolizing the Dutch reform debate

Ministerial influence on prosecutors – Lady Justice statue symbolizing the Dutch reform debate

Who Guards Justice? The Dutch Push to Strip Ministers of Prosecutorial Power

PeanutsChoice 14/09/2025

Ministerial influence on prosecutors is under fire in the Netherlands. A new law aims to strip ministers...

The Climate Future Has Arrived — And It’s Tuesday Climate future wildfire scene with cracked earth and burning forest, symbolizing heat, fire, and drought as part of daily life

Climate future wildfire scene with cracked earth and burning forest, symbolizing heat, fire, and drought as part of daily life

The Climate Future Has Arrived — And It’s Tuesday

PeanutsChoice 11/09/2025

Climate future is here. Heat, floods, fires, and drought already shape daily life, eroding confidence, democracy, and...

Trump’s Tariff Gambit: Why Europe Can’t Win by Playing His Game

PeanutsChoice 11/09/2025

Trump tariffs Europe: Trump’s demand for 100% tariffs on India and China leaves the EU trapped between...

The Authoritarian Playbook, Part 3: Enemies Within Protester silhouette facing police line symbolizing authoritarian enemies within — Citizen of Europe header image.

Protester silhouette facing police line symbolizing authoritarian enemies within — Citizen of Europe header image.

The Authoritarian Playbook, Part 3: Enemies Within

PeanutsChoice 08/09/2025

Authoritarian enemies within: how regimes in the US, Russia, China, India, and Europe manufacture threats to criminalize...

Gaza’s Breaking Point: Starvation, Silence, and the Law Gaza famine 2025 — silhouette of child amid ruins with Citizen of Europe logo and thin red line overlay

Gaza’s Breaking Point: Starvation, Silence, and the Law

PeanutsChoice 07/09/2025

Confirmed famine in Gaza: 640,000 at risk, children starving, journalists silenced. UN warns starvation as warfare may...

Kyiv or Nothing — Zelensky buries Europe’s ‘neutral ground’ myth Zelensky rejects Moscow invitation — defiant side profile in Citizen of Europe header

Kyiv or Nothing — Zelensky buries Europe’s ‘neutral ground’ myth

PeanutsChoice 07/09/2025

Zelensky rejects Moscow invitation, demands talks in Kyiv. A turning point: the end of Europe’s ‘neutral ground’...

Putin Declares Western Troops in Ukraine “Legitimate Targets” Silhouetted soldiers behind barbed wire at sunset, symbolising Putin’s warning that Western troops in Ukraine would be treated as legitimate targets

Silhouetted soldiers behind barbed wire at sunset, symbolising Putin’s warning that Western troops in Ukraine would be treated as legitimate targets

Putin Declares Western Troops in Ukraine “Legitimate Targets”

PeanutsChoice 05/09/2025

At Vladivostok’s Eastern Economic Forum, Putin warned Western troops in Ukraine—even peacekeepers—would be “legitimate targets.” Europe faces...

What Democracy Gave Us: Power, Chaos, and the Right to Fight Back Empty parliament hall with soft daylight and rows of chairs symbolizing the fragility of democracy

Empty parliament hall with soft daylight and rows of chairs symbolizing the fragility of democracy

What Democracy Gave Us: Power, Chaos, and the Right to Fight Back

PeanutsChoice 05/09/2025

Democracy gave us no paradise — but it gave us the right to resist, to vote, to...

Afghanistan Buries Its Children as the World Looks Away Afghanistan earthquake 2025 survivors search rubble in destroyed village homes, black and white photo with Citizen of Europe logo

Afghanistan Buries Its Children as the World Looks Away

PeanutsChoice 04/09/2025

Afghanistan earthquake 2025 kills 2,200+, injures 3,600+. Survivors dig by hand as aid lags, roads blocked, UN...

Trump Shrugs at Xi’s Parade with Putin & Kim: Ego First, Strategy Later Trump reaction to Xi parade with Putin and Kim — editorial header shows Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un on Beijing grandstand during military parade with PLA soldiers marching, Citizen of Europe badge in upper right corner.

Trump reaction to Xi parade with Putin and Kim — editorial header shows Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un on Beijing grandstand during military parade with PLA soldiers marching, Citizen of Europe badge in upper right corner.

Trump Shrugs at Xi’s Parade with Putin & Kim: Ego First, Strategy Later

PeanutsChoice 03/09/2025

Trump reaction to Xi parade. Xi staged a Beijing military parade with Putin and Kim. Trump called...

Tough Love — Kids vs. Trump, Climate Lawsuit on Deck youth climate lawsuit Trump — black-and-white photo of young climate activists standing with protest signs outside a courthouse, with the Citizen of Europe (CØE) round logo small in the upper-right corner.

Tough Love — Kids vs. Trump, Climate Lawsuit on Deck

PeanutsChoice 03/09/2025

Youth activists sue Trump over fossil fuels, arguing climate destruction violates their Fifth Amendment rights. Constitutional law...

Israel Genocide in Gaza? What the Scholars’ Consensus Means in Law and Politics Israel genocide Gaza symbolism – barbed wire against blurred city backdrop, representing siege and legal debate on genocide claims

Israel genocide Gaza symbolism – barbed wire against blurred city backdrop, representing siege and legal debate on genocide claims

Israel Genocide in Gaza? What the Scholars’ Consensus Means in Law and Politics

PeanutsChoice 01/09/2025

Israel genocide claims escalate as scholars say Gaza meets UN definition. ICJ orders and ICC warrants raise...

Hamas, the Palestinians, and the History That Shapes Them Young Palestinian girl in Qalqiliya, West Bank — human face of Palestinian identity behind Hamas vs. Palestinians history.

Young Palestinian girl in Qalqiliya, West Bank — human face of Palestinian identity behind Hamas vs. Palestinians history.

Hamas, the Palestinians, and the History That Shapes Them

PeanutsChoice 31/08/2025

Palestinians are a people. Hamas is a faction. One was shaped by exile and dispossession; the other...

Twelver vs. Zaidi: The Shi’a Divide Behind the Yemen War Twelver vs Zaidi Shi’a in Yemen – map showing Zaidi areas in northern Yemen and Sunni regions elsewhere, highlighting sectarian divisions behind the war.

Twelver vs Zaidi Shi’a in Yemen – map showing Zaidi areas in northern Yemen and Sunni regions elsewhere, highlighting sectarian divisions behind the war.

Twelver vs. Zaidi: The Shi’a Divide Behind the Yemen War

PeanutsChoice 31/08/2025

The Houthis are Zaidi, not Twelver Shi’a — but Iran backs them anyway. Theology split them...

Seven IDF Soldiers Wounded in Gaza Ambush — Narrative War Escalates 33366518-82ac-4c40-968a-822e451d4b0d-1

Seven IDF Soldiers Wounded in Gaza Ambush — Narrative War Escalates

PeanutsChoice 30/08/2025

Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded in Zeitoun, Gaza City, when an armored vehicle was ambushed. Hamas claims...

Alibaba’s AI Chip Gamble: Beijing’s Answer to Nvidia’s Squeeze Close-up of a gold microchip on a dark circuit board, symbolizing Alibaba’s AI chip amid U.S. sanctions, with Citizen of Europe logo in red

Alibaba’s AI Chip Gamble: Beijing’s Answer to Nvidia’s Squeeze

PeanutsChoice 29/08/2025

Alibaba develops a new AI chip to counter Nvidia bans. What this means for China’s tech sovereignty...

Propaganda With Props: Outvoting Britain With Flags Propaganda Nigel Farage portrait, Citizen of Europe header image with logo in upper right corner"

Propaganda With Props: Outvoting Britain With Flags

PeanutsChoice 27/08/2025

Flags and hotel protests make Farage look like he has a majority. In reality, it’s stagecraft: symbols...

Trump’s European Cousins: From Orbán to Wilders, the Populist Family Tree< Donald Trump seen from behind, facing European populist leaders including Geert Wilders, Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, Nigel Farage, and Santiago Abascal, arranged on a stage under political lighting.

Donald Trump seen from behind, facing European populist leaders including Geert Wilders, Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, Nigel Farage, and Santiago Abascal, arranged on a stage under political lighting.

Trump’s European Cousins: From Orbán to Wilders, the Populist Family Tree<