European and Global News Bulletin for November 15, 2025.

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The global risk landscape recalibrated sharply on November 15th, 2025, as a confluence of political and economic shocks sent analysts scrambling to update their scenario models. In Europe, the fragile coalition government in Germany unexpectedly collapsed, triggering a constitutional crisis that immediately reverberated through Brussels, threatening to derail the EU's unified front on the proposed Digital Services Act.This isn't merely a domestic political squabble; it's a systemic vulnerability event. The German instability creates a power vacuum at the heart of the European project, emboldening sovereigntist factions in France and Italy who are already capitalizing on the disarray to challenge the bloc's core regulatory harmonization principles.The immediate market response was a flight to safety, with the euro dipping 1. 8% against the dollar and Bund yields seesawing wildly.Meanwhile, an ostensibly unrelated event in the South China Sea—an unflagged naval drone wash-up near a major shipping lane—has escalated into a major diplomatic standoff. Initial assessments point to a high-probability testing incident, but the opacity of the situation is the primary risk multiplier.Supply chain analysts at major logistics firms are already running simulations on the impact of a 48-hour closure of that corridor, with preliminary data suggesting a 7-10% spike in container shipping costs, which would directly feed into already-strained global inflation metrics. This geopolitical friction coincides with a critical OPEC+ emergency meeting in Vienna, where early reports indicate a deadlock between Saudi Arabia and the UAE over production cuts.The failure to reach a consensus could see oil prices break through the $120 per barrel threshold, creating a stagflationary scenario that central banks, already in a tightening cycle, are ill-equipped to handle. The cascading nature of these events—political fragmentation in Europe, military brinksmanship in Asia, and energy market volatility—presents a textbook case of correlated risks.The probability of a 'grey swan' event, where two or more of these crises intersect, has increased from our previous estimate of 15% to nearly 35% within a single 24-hour news cycle. The key variable to watch now is not any single event, but the contagion effect across asset classes and diplomatic channels, a scenario for which most institutional preparedness plans are critically underweight.

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