by Prof.Dr Sven Biscop
Knowing how to do things is not the same as knowing what you are doing. Think of the Ukraine crisis. The European Union (EU) rolled out the entire machinery of trade negotiations,…
by Nina Schick
European leaders and Turkey were due to agree a deal brokered by European Council President Donald Tusk to bring down the flow of migrants to Europe in Brussels yesterday. On the eve of…
by Fabian Zuleeg
After some drama, the EU Summit produced the expected result: an agreement on the UK-EU relationship that broadly reflects the demands Prime Minister Cameron set out in his letter to President Tusk in…
by Julia Ann
Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that about all reformists had been butterfingers by…
by Judy Dempsey
Dmitry Medvedev sure knows how to press the right buttons. Here was the Russian prime minister making his first appearance at the 2016 Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top policymakers…
by Stephen Booth
The UK Government has now wrapped up its EU renegotiation ahead of the referendum. Open Europe lays out its take on the renegotiation and sets this in the broader context of the UK’s…
by Pawel Swidlicki
Exempting the UK from the obligation of working towards an ‘ever closer union’ has been one of the government's key renegotiation objectives. Open Europe's Pawel Swidlicki and Stephen Booth assess whether the relevant…
by Pieter Cleppe
Open Europe’s Pieter Cleppe writes for Dutch daily De Volkskrant that a proposal by Belgian Migration Secretary Theo Francken to make it mandatory for asylum seekers to apply for asylum in ‘hotspots’…
by David Ramin Jalilvand
In early January 2016, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated. The execution of Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer al-Nimr sparked outrage among the Middle East's Shiite populations. In Iran, the…
by John Bruton
Next June the people of the UK may vote to leave the European Union. At the moment, a narrow majority favours remaining in the EU, but a large group are undecided. That group…