Northern coast of France
Isla
Chisholm
International Relations & Global Security Correspondent
About
Isla Chisholm is an independent foreign correspondent with more than twenty years of reporting across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. She covers global security, border dynamics, shifting alliances and international diplomacy.
Born into a Scottish family, she grew up across the Commonwealth and studied in New Zealand and Australia, where she also learned Polish — a language she now uses to cover security in Central and Eastern Europe.
Isla works strictly as a freelancer, convinced that objectivity is best kept on the move. Alongside her main beat she writes long-form essays on how Europe's royal houses navigate modern politics, diplomacy and soft power.
- Based in
- Northern coast of France
- Languages
- English, French, Polish
- Nexus Europa
- Writes for Nexus Europa
- Bluesky
- islachisholm.bsky.social
Latest reporting
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Polish Сity of Lublin Reopens Cold War Shelter as Russian Strikes Intensify Near Border
The eastern Polish city of Lublin has reopened a Cold War-era air raid shelter, modernising the 1980s facility as escalating Russian attacks in neighbouring Ukraine press directly against NATO’s frontier. Built beneath the premises of the municipal bus operator MPK during the height of NATO-Warsaw Pact tensions, the subterranean bunker has been retrofitted with independent air, water, and power systems capable of sustaining 200 people for up to 72 hours.
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Europe’s Housing Crisis: Why Property Prices and Rents Keep Rising in 2026
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Spain’s Housing Crisis Threatens Pedro Sánchez as Parliament Rejects Rent Controls
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Kyiv Bridge Attacks: How Russian Drone Strikes are Paralysing Ukraine's Capital
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G7 Agrees Emergency 100 Million Barrel Oil Release as US Threatens Diesel Export Ban
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How Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Rebrand Sparked a Rush for Slovenia's .si Domains
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Ukraine War Budget 2026: How Brussels and Kyiv Covered the $27 Billion Gap
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Super El Niño and Food Prices: How the 2026 Agricultural Shock Imposes a Climate Tax on European Monetary Policy
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