The sheer chaos in 60,000 illegal crossings from Morocco into the E.U. at Ceuta dramatizes the dire "state of nature" condition of anarchy when a government's sovereignty is presumptuously dismissed the individuals and their home government. https://thewordenreportinternationalrelations.blogspot.com/2026/07/chaos-in-massive-illegal-crossings-into.html

Is the E.U. doing enough in coordinating communications between the state governments on counterterrorism? Was the E.U. needlessly blindsided when a man with ties to Middle Eastern extremism plowed his car into a crowd at Berlin's Pride festival? https://thewordenreport-governmentandmarkets.blogspot.com/2026/07/eu-federalism-on-sis-counterterrorism.html

12 American Member-States are challenging the Paramount-Warner Bros/Discovery mega-merger, by claiming the federal Justice Dept looked the other way in refusing to enforce the Clayton Anti-Trust law. American federalism to the rescue of consumers! https://thewordenreport-governmentandmarkets.blogspot.com/2026/07/california-and-eleven-dwarfs-take-on.html

Ukraine unnecessarily inflaming an E.U. state; the E.U.'s parliament passing a resolution against Zelenskyy. Hello??? There is an invasion going on-- a fire to be extinguished. Priorities? Which is more important: the past or the present? A European sensitivity: https://thewordenreportinternationalrelations.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-ukrainian-insurgent-army-upa-europe.html

The E.U.'s response to Venezuela's earthquakes illustrates a state-federal response that is in line with, and can even strengthen, the E.U.'s federal system. The U.S. could take a lesson! https://thewordenreport-governmentandmarkets.blogspot.com/2026/06/eu-emergency-assistance-to-venezuela.html