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Yemen’s Houthis no longer consider a threat the possible end of the truce both in the country and with Saudi Arabia. Conversely, they are testing its limits to boost their ‘would be sovereignty’ in northwestern-controlled areas. This is what the Iranian-backed group’s attack against a target in Saudi Arabia, the first in four years, suggests. On 13 July, the Houthis targeted with missiles a Saudi civilian airport in Abha, in the southern region of Asir.

Long before the outbreak of the ongoing Iran war, the United Arab Emirates had begun preparing for a scenario that many regional economies feared: a major disruption to Gulf trade routes, energy flows and digital infrastructure. Rather than treating connectivity as a purely economic objective, the UAE increasingly approached it as a matter of national resilience.

Ormai conclusa, per il 2026, la stagione dei vertici – G7, Consiglio europeo e NATO – è normale chiedersi quale sia lo stato delle relazioni transatlantiche dopo quello che è stato indubbiamente un anno vissuto pericolosamente, fra dazi commerciali, Gaza, Venezuela, Groenlandia e Iran: l’ultimo summit della serie, quello della NATO ad Ankara, era anzi visto e percepito come un vero e proprio stress test.

The MED This Week newsletter provides informed insights on the most significant developments in the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions and reliable foresight into future scenarios. Today, we shed light on the MENA region at the 36th NATO summit. The 36th NATO Summit took place in Ankara as the Iran War flares up once again, with US President Donald Trump declaring June’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) “over”.

In questo episodio di settepiùsette parliamo delle importanti sentenze della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti, arrivati in una settimana che culmina con i festeggiamenti per i 250 anni dell’indipendenza. Commentiamo le elezioni legislative in Algeria per capire il perché della scarsissima affluenza e ragioniamo sullo stallo mililtare e negoziale della guerra in Ucraina. Commentary: Leadership in the Ukraine-Russia Peace Process is a New Challenge for Europe

A deadline is approaching that should concentrate European minds. In November 2025, Beijing agreed to suspend the second wave of its sweeping rare-earth export controls – the measures that, earlier in the year, had pushed prices in the EU as much as sixfold and left some German production lines within weeks of stoppage. That suspension runs only until 10 November 2026. Brussels has, in effect, been handed a pause, not a reprieve.

Europeans will arrive in Ankara insisting that they want a ‘more European’ NATO. That ambition is understandable in a post‑American age marked by US euro-skepticism, hostile rhetoric, and structural pivot toward the Indo‑Pacific. It is also expected from Washington.

The forthcoming NATO summit in Ankara brings to the fore a series of critical issues that will shape the Alliance’s future. While views on NATO’s priorities and the way ahead inevitably differ, there is widespread concern about the state of the Alliance and the challenges it now faces. With Donald Trump at the White House, at any rate, virtually every NATO summit – and now they are an annual recurrence – feels like a ‘make or break’ event.

NATO heads of government will shortly convene in Ankara for another much-anticipated annual NATO summit. Since US President Trump entered office for his first term in 2016, major NATO gatherings such as this have become somewhat of a spectacle in their own right. Leaders never know exactly how they’ll play out: will the US threaten to leave and blame allies for free riding?

The upcoming NATO summit in Ankara will certainly place great emphasis on NATO’s own pivot to Europe, and European allies’ progress on increasing spending, capabilities and resilience. European NATO allies have already committed to spending more money on defence than at any point since the Cold War.