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News is not only about the moment. Circa assembles the history around it — how we got here, what changed, where things stand and what to watch next.

European security architecture
European security architecture

Dossiers

Long-running stories, kept current.

The chip controls
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The chip controls

Five years of export policy, and the supply chain it produced.

5 events · Chips · AI

Global AI regulation
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Global AI regulation

From voluntary principles to disclosure thresholds, in four years.

4 events · AI · Digital Policy

The rate cycle
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The rate cycle

The tightening that was supposed to be short.

4 events · Rates · Markets

Timeline

European security architecture

  1. A scheduled review is postponed; the working group is kept in place.

  2. Planning assumptions written in the previous decade are formally withdrawn.

  3. An internal costing is released showing a multi-year shortfall.

  4. The first text mentioning explicit guarantees reaches delegations.

  5. Nineteen delegations arrive with three competing drafts.

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