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…
by Richard Youngs
Since the Euromaidan antigovernment protests in 2013–2014, Ukraine has made some progress along the path of democratization. The country’s government has stalled on many reform imperatives, however, and has recently been mired in…
by Sophie Heine
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The recent attacks in Brussels have left everyone in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe in shock. People feel more and more helpless in the face of what seems to be, after the attacks…
by Derk Jan Eppink
The European Union faces some critical, potentially existential, crises: the migration flows and related issues; Brexit; terrorism; chaos and war on Europe’s borders; the list goes on. The European Parliament, however, is…
by Vít Novotný
The terrorist attacks in Brussels on the second day of spring 2016 have inspired renewed calls for better sharing of intelligence between the EU’s national governments. For example, Guy Verhofstadt, the chairman of…
by Vince Chadwick & Maia De La Baume
The decision to label settlement goods causes friction within the bloc and strains ties with a staunch ally. Israel’s U.S. ambassador sent gift boxes for the 2015 holiday season…
by Martin Arnold
European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. Belgium’s KBC, Germany’s DZ Bank…
by Kabir Taneja*
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to make one of his more important foreign sojourns this month, as he prepares to visit Iran for a two-day official visit beginning on…
by Vladimir Slivyak
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Coal is one of the dirtiest industries in Russia. Apart from hydropower, renewable energy is practically non-existent. Civil society groups that might push for more sustainable sources of power are few and far…
by Pawel Swidlicki
A new poll released this morning shows that while Poles still strongly back EU membership, they also want to see border controls reinstated within the Schengen area. Open Europe's Pawel Swidlicki looks at…