H istory has an unfortunate habit of repeating itself, and this could happen when the EU’s European Council meets on 24 - 25 September. The Council meeting, which was called by President Charles Michel…
Vocal Cast · Belarus: Has the Moment for Real Change Arrived?
A s part of our Vocal Cast series supported by Science 14, We talked to Mr Alexander Dabravolsky - Member of the Political Council of…
T he European Defence Fund (EDF) is based on the article 173 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, which provides the legal framework for cooperation between the EU Member states through…
A s part of our Monday Talks series supported by Science 14, we have talked to H.E Christian Berger, Head of EU Delegation to Turkey. The issues discussed included, inter alia, cooperation between the…
F or a number of years the EU has been hoodwinked by Turkey’s leader, now president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is a master practitioner of the art. Likewise, the US president, Barack Obama, who…
F or the past years, many economic indicators have been projecting what the world's leading political and economic powers would look like in 2020.[1] In these projections, China, Russia, India and the United States…
A t the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, Russia was considered less affected than other countries in fight against the pandemic. Despite sharing a long border with China, the number of COVID-19 cases…
I n the past two decades, the Eastern neighbourhood has been one of the EU’s key foreign policy priorities.[1] With the enlargement waves of 2004 and 2007 in Central and Eastern Europe, the EU…
T he short-term economic effects of the COVID-19 and the lockdown measures adopted across Europe in response to the pandemic are causing significant pressure for public spending. As national budgets and the EU’s…
T he Russian government’s response to COVID-19 has been one of contradictions and confusion. Yet to announce a nation-wide lockdown, President Vladimir Putin has shifted responsibility, delegated decision making and averted public attention away…