Vocal Europe
A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez…
by Alex Benjamin
0.41%. I want you to keep that number in mind. It’s important in the context of the current UK Labour Party woes over Anti-semitism. That’s the percentage that British Jews…
by Wojciech Jakóbik
The recurring provocations make this a real possibility. The number of military incidents may increase.
Polish and Russian submarines would have collided in the Baltic Sea last week, according to the Polish news…
by STEFAN LEHNE
Europe’s refugee crisis initially drove EU member states apart. Confronted in mid-2015 with a mass inflow of asylum seekers that threatened internal political stability, member states returned to the logic of narrow national…
by Mirko Moser-Abt
The migrant crisis and the subsequent political turmoil have banished from our minds a conflict that has been fairly present in Europe for the past two years: the war in Eastern Ukraine. Initially…
by Teona Lavrelashvili
In recent years mainstream political parties on both the right and the left have been confronted with new challenges. For the centre-right, recent electoral results in Slovakia and, to a much lesser extent,…
by Erik van der Marel
Domestic institutions are an important factor explaining past economic performance (Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, 2001) as well as comparative advantage (Levchenko, 2005; Nunn, 2007). Simply put, domestic institutions are essential for…
by Łukasz Antoni Król
The battle for an open Internet is not merely a matter of political principle. It is also a means of achieving certain EU foreign policy goals, such as supporting democracy or combating hybrid…
by Vladimir Milov
What have we learned and what are the implications for Putin and for relations between Russia and the West from the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal? Here's what we know so far.
Substantial evidence of Putin's…
by Mattias Vermeiren & Wouter Lips
The collaborative publication of the Panama Papers in the first week of April revealed in an unprecdented level tax evasion via the Panamanian lawyer’s office Mossack Fonseca - this article examines lessons…