Must-Reads Health/US - The United States COVID-19 epidemic: early lessons learned and the way forward, Testimony by Caitlin Rivers, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies EU - Regional or global player? The EU’s international profile, Iliana Olivié & Manuel Gracia, Real Instituto Elcano EU/Western Balkans - 4 takeaways from the EU’s virtual Balkan summit, David M. Herszenhorn Jacopo Barigazzi and Andrew Gray, Politico EU/Western Balkans - China’s Balkan Investments Are Paradoxically Speeding Region’s EU Integration, David Felsen, Dennis Feltwell, Balkan Insight EU/Eurozone/Germany - Germany’s Judges Declare War on the ECB, Willem H. Buiter, Project Syndicate Europe/China - COVID-19 and Europe-China Relations: A country-by-country analysis, European Think Tank Network on China Conflict - The Evolving Nature of War, Douglas J. Feith, Shaul Chorev, National Institute for Public Policy US/Climate - The carbon tax opportunity, Kemal Derviş, Sebastian Strauss, Brookings US/Russia/Nuclear - Critiquing the State Department’s Nuclear Posture Clarification, George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace US/Immigration/Security - Immigration and U.S. National Security: The State of Play Since 9/11, Amy Pope, Migration Policy Institute Development - Turning back the Poverty Clock: How will COVID-19 impact the world’s poorest people? Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, Brookings Global/China - Sharp Power in Sharp Focus, Zsombor Zeöld, The Center for European Policy Analysis