by Solon Ardittis
One of the conclusions of the informal meeting of EU home affairs ministers on 25-26 January 2016 was to entrust the European Commission with the preparation of a two-year suspension of the…
by Tomi Huhtanen
As a consequence of the dramatic events in 1989 and the fall of the Berlin wall in Europe, the introduction of the Euro and the speedy EU enlargement some years later gave an…
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by Dr. Roubzeh Parsi
After the United States and the European Union have lifted economic sanctions on Iran, the country…
by David Hearst
Nearly four months into its intervention, Russia is an active combatant in the Syrian civil war. This is not just an assertion. It is borne out by casualty figures and the…
by Martin Balaz
The funeral of two drowned fugitive brothers, Jacob and Hanna, was attended by almost all Assyrian Christians in Midyat in the south-east of Turkey. All of them fitted in a rather small…
by Rica Heinke
When the euro crisis was at its peak, European media largely ignored the situation in Portugal, even though the small Iberian country with a population of just over 10 million suffered massive economic…
by JUDY DEMPSEY
When the center-right Civic Platform party ran the Polish government from 2007 to 2015, it could do no wrong. That was the reputation it earned from several of its European Union partners.
The…
by James Rogers
Pro-Europeans in the United Kingdom (UK) have had a miserable time of late. They seem completely unable to articulate a clear, decisive and engaging message to attack their anti-European and Eurosceptic opponents…
by JUDY DEMPSEY
A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Cornelius Adebahr - Associate in Carnegie’s Europe Program
They might,…
by Roland Freudenstein & Konrad Niklewicz
Let’s be clear: This is not about ‘punishing Poland’. This is about proving that we are a Union built on values, that among those is liberal democracy (based on separation of powers,…