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Not since Willy Brandt’s 1970s Ostpolitik has a German geopolitical term made such waves as Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende.
Who remembers the EU’s Lisbon strategy of 2000? Probably not many, so let’s revisit its ambitious goals.
Abortion has been a hugely divisive issue in the United States ever since the 1973 Roe v Wade judgment fifty years ago.
Comparisons have long-been made between former US President Donald Trump and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
After 15 months of considering the EU’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic, an EU Parliament special committee has released its 56-page report.
There was a time, not too long ago, when New Europe seemed set to become a coherent force in continental affairs.
You cannot go far these days in Europe, indeed throughout the West, without being harangued by some celebrity about climate change or social justice.
Many Right-wing populists in the West, from Donald Trump in the US, to Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Marine Le Pen in France, are known for their abrasive and direct…
The EU’s foreign policy is the progenitor of a new era in international relations - or so argues a 2009 essay in the renowned journal Foreign Policy.
As Leopard panzers spearhead what appears to be Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive, expectations of a major Ukrainian victory this year are running high.
Sir Keir Starmer, the British Labour party leader — an organisation organically linked to the country’s major unions — is the latest of many European politicians,…
The savage internal conflict poisoning Libya has been ongoing for more than a decade now.
Germans identify less with Europe than in the past, according to a new survey from German public broadcaster ARD.
“Renewables are cheap, they are home-grown, they make us independent.
Amid an upsurge in Turkish nationalism, debate is raging over whether Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will make good on his promised intention to repatriate…
China's Belt and Road Initiative is a land and maritime infrastructure project developed by the People's Republic of China.
As Artificial Intelligence continues to develop, its potential abuse is panicking the public. Will it replace human labour entirely?
Qatargate has become the biggest corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament. It has exposed the ability of foreign governments to penetrate European institutions.
The Spanish government is pleading for help from the European Commission as its farmers suffer a historic drought that looks set to destroy a large part of this…
For a long time it seemed as if the “spectre of Communism” has been thoroughly exorcised from Western Europe, but at least in Austria it seems to be enjoying…
Although France’s influence on the world stage has shrunk, French Presidents have a habit of still taking on larger-than-reality personas
A spy, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is “a person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements and plans of an…
The wine and beer industries successfully killed off the first European Commission attempt to slap warning labels on their products – back in 2007 – and the…
European Union officials, and those of the European Commission in particular, reputedly have cushy jobs.
There used to be an EU official whose sole job consisted of trying to convince non-EU countries to drop the death penalty.
What weight do personalities have in the design and implementation of European Union policies?
From a European immigration perspective, the situation in the Maghreb countries of northern Africa looks grim.
Wars do not end in peace negotiations but at the ballot box, argues the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in the introduction to its latest Ukraine war…
Law-abiding Euro MPs must be furious with the Qatargate suspects, who have brought unwelcome attention to less-than-totally-ethical European Parliament practices…
The Qatargate scandal, now three months young, has revealed the seedy underbelly of the European Parliament: an assembly where Euro MPs – allegedly – accept…
