by Stephen Booth
Firstly, Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017 is still possible. The Government has said it will appeal to the Supreme Court, which is expected…
by Heather Grabbe & Stefan Lehne
September 8, 2016
EU leaders will meet in Bratislava on September 16 to reflect on how to move forward after the June 23 British referendum decision to leave the union. They…
by Viktoria Jancosekova
"We don’t understand one another, we don’t trust each other, but we are at least able to meet."
This was one of the most memorable quotes from last week’s meeting of the Normandy group…
by Aarti Shankar
The free trade deal between the EU and Canada, known as the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) currently hangs in the balance, with the Walloon regional parliament blocking Belgium from approving the…
by Michael Freund
October 2016 may well be remembered as a pivotal month, a further milestone in the downfall of the Tower of Babel that is the EU.
Barely a week has passed since the start…
by Yavuz Baydar
It happened on a special day. After the Republic Day celebrations, on October 29, Bülent Tezcan, the vice chairman of Turkey's main opposition party, CHP, was sitting at a dinner table together…
by Yavuz Baydar
Early this morning, we the deeply concerned, woke up to yet another nightmare. After the closure of 16 Kurdish media outlets on Saturday, it was daily Cumhuriyet’s turn to be raided; its…
by Yavuz Baydar
'It is not possible to say that all of those who have joined the attempt belong to that community.'
This was the response of Ümit Dündar, a four-star general who as the…
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by Struan Stevenson
The revelation that the Obama administration paid Iran a ransom of almost half a billion dollars in cash…
by Gert Röhrborn
Over the last weeks Poland has witnessed an unprecedented mobilisation of women against the tightening of the abortion law. Our colleague Gert Röhrborn from our Warsaw office sheds light on recent events.
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