/ /
According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 3.3 billion people live in areas highly exposed to the impacts of climate change. In addition, the Global Internal Displacement Database …

/ /
In May 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron boldly proposed a new platform of European cooperation that would enhance coordination between the European Union (EU) and nations as yet outside the …

/ /
Exactly a week after senior European Union officials arrived in Kyiv for the 24th EU-Ukraine Summit, President Volodymyr Zelensky set off on a charm offensive tour around Europe.  He started …

/ /
On November 2nd, 2022, the Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed for the first time in February 2017, was automatically renewed for three more years without amendments by the Italian …
Via German Federal Government / Loos

/ /
In 1947, George Marshall’s proposition of a reconstructive plan for the states of a fragmented, post-war Europe was certainly a novelty, yet seemingly set a precedent for global polity’s management …

/ /
Although it might come as a surprise to many, Russia has presented a series of legal arguments founded on international law, as made clear during Vladimir Putin’s speech at the …

/ /
The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since the Russian invasion in February left the port of Odesa under a landmark deal to lift Moscow’s naval blockade in the Black Sea. …

/ /
“To initiate a war of aggression”, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared in 1946, “is the supreme international crime”. The Crime of Aggression targets the leaders most responsible for initiating a war …

/ /
As the world moves towards a zero-emission future, Russia, one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels, is facing a war against Ukraine for its geopolitcal reasons and interests. …

/ /
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin takes self-isolation seriously. For the past two years, even his closest aides could not do as much as breathe the same air as the 69-year-old Kremlin …

/ /
In the Balkans, democracy hangs in the balance. It has been two decades since the end of the Yugoslav Wars, with peace-building and reconciliation projects proliferating in the region ever …

/ /
It is cold this time of year at the Belarusian-Polish border. The temperatures barely rise above 0ºC, and it freezes at night. Yet, thousands of migrants are stuck with barely …

/ /
The European Union is facing significant challenges on many fronts: a pandemic that has severely hit Europe with no end in sight; stalling integration and even disintegration of the union; …

/ /
“Probably shots are not heard as loudly in Central Park or Madison Square Garden as in Avdiivka industrial zone or Svitlodarsk Arc”; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words echoed through the …

/ /
The end of the Eastern Mediterranean gas dispute is nowhere near in sight. Although Greece and Turkey assented to resume talks at the beginning of 2021 after a five-year hiatus, …

/ /
Globalisation has many faces. On the one hand, it generates enormous economic fortunes and determines the flow of international trade. This is a truly positive aspect of globalisation, and it …

/ /
What do you do when your country’s Constitutional Court becomes a threat to national security? How do you reform an institution whose leaders see institutional progress and evolution as something …

/ /
We are living in what some have called the age of migration. We are also, according to breathless reports by outlets from Forbes to CNBC, about to enter an era …

/ /
At the 2003 summit of Thessaloniki, the six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia (then called the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia), Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo …

/ /
Emmanuel Macron was aiming for no less than the transformation of French society. His determination to reconcile alienated voters with a liberal project of radical social and economic reforms made …

/ /
“We are still disappointed, angry and a little bit frustrated, because we got a promise from the European Union that when we deliver, they would deliver — and they failed.”  …

/ /
After the Hanau terror attack, Germany is debating about racism. Does this debate miss the point? Our Europe Editor, Nick Alipour, investigates. A few weeks ago, one of my friends …

/ /
A life size statue of Bruce Lee might seem like a strange choice for a park in Mostar, an Ottoman built frontier town in Bosnia and Herzegovina dating back to …

/ /
As world leaders gather this week to meet for the 2020 World Economic Forum to discuss and evaluate the most pressing economic and global issues in the world, social leaders …

/ /
Not many people know what Manus Island and “Operation Sovereign Border” are. When we think and speak about Australia, the first images that come to mind are of a land …

/ /
The history of the United States is one of extremely fortuitous land purchases from European powers.  In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson initiated the long process of Manifest Destiny with the …

/ /
Sanna Marin was announced as Finland’s new prime minister earlier in December. Marin takes over from Antti Rinne, who resigned following criticism of his handling of a postal strike. At …

/ /
Were one to glance at some of the articles written in the last month about the Ukrainian presidential elections, they would be likely to come away with a rather negative …

/ /
In February, France recalled its ambassador from Rome, which hasn’t happened since Italy declared war on France in June 1940 . Macron, the defender of Europe’s liberal order and the …

/ /
In your book you explain that the initial motivation that pushed you to write it is constantly being asked the same questions by policy makers and politicians and argue that …

/ /
On Saturday France withstood the thirteenth round of mobilisation from the movement “the Yellow Vests”, with 52,000 protesters turning out around the country. Since the movement began as an online …

/ /
After an ambiguous election outcome last September, Swedish politics has revolved around who can scrape together the most support in parliament to be able to run the country. With only …

/ /
The yellow vest (gilet jaunes) movement began last November and was named after the high-vis jackets worn by motorists who started the movement. Although the gilet jaunes started by protesting …

/ /
One year ago, former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stated “it is obvious that there can be no such thing as a German Ostpolitik today. It has to be a …

/ /
The recent rise of right-wing populism has caught the Western establishment firmly off-guard. Echoed in Fukuyama’s infamous political diagnosis that this was “the end of history”, the liberal status-quo established …

/ /
Protests broke out in Tirana, Albania, on 5 December over rising higher education tuition fees. Initial protestors originated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanistics of the University of Tirana, …

/ /
For three days, Paris was the capital of the world. On 11 November, over 70 world leaders gathered in Paris to celebrate the moment all guns fell silent on the …

/ /
Every five years, citizens of the European Union member states go to the polls to elect their regional representatives to the European Parliament. The elections to the European Parliament are …

/ /
Currently in Brussels, reform heralds significant changes for the European Union, but it is also in the East that the winds of change herald the reshaping of Europe. The 2004 …

/ /
  The budding, year-long bromance between US president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron seems to have ended abruptly following a Twitter spat over one of the transatlantic alliance’s …

/ /
Few states have done more to capture global attention in recent years than the Russian Federation. The invasion and annexation of eastern Ukraine, the devastating intervention in Syria, the election …

/ /
While eternal winter was engulfing the north of the continent in snow, a subtle fight has broken out in Germany. The battle is all about an iron throne: the throne …

/ /
Given that 76% of Germans are in favour of the Euro according to Eurobarometer, being a German and a strong anti-Euro advocate is not a usual combination. Nonetheless, Professor Bernd …

/ /
Although news of the Russian affair with the poisoning of Sergei Skripal continues to dominate Russian and British headlines, it is important to remember that Russia also has another conflict …

/ /
  On Sunday, Italy will go to the ballots for the eighteenth time since the end of WWII – possibly the most unpredictable election since the advent of the Republic, …

/ /
The timing could not have been worse. On 26 January, police searched the office of the Portuguese finance minister Mario Centeno – only two weeks after he had officially assumed the presidency of …

/ /
The international agenda was quite intense for the French president in his very first months in office. A NATO summit, the G7, bilateral meetings with foreign state leaders at home …

/ /
The man finishes off his speech with a rebellious call: “For today, long live the Republic! For tomorrow, long live the left!” What he did not mean: long live the …

/ /
The Catalan elections on Thursday produced an expected result in an atypical election. The liberal anti-independence party Ciudadanos won the most representatives but the combined vote share of the pro-independence …

/ /
“Idleness is an abuse of power – Our country is at stake.” Barely two months ago, the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) re-entered parliament following an expensive publicity campaign that …

/ /
In recent weeks, thousands of people in Germany have marched in protest against the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), the far-right political party whose strong performance in September’s election gave them …

/ /
From the outside, it seems as if nothing has changed. For a brief moment, the world turned its eyes to the German election, noticed Merkel had won and then turned …

/ /
Two recent events epitomise what has been Ireland’s Achilles’ heel since gaining independence in 1922: the separation of religious beliefs from governance. Early on Friday 27th October, the Student Union …

/ /
Every state has its founding myths. Perhaps the most persistent myth associated with the European project was articulated by one of its founding fathers, Jean Monnet: Europe will be forged …

/ /
‘Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty.’ – Carl Andre Last Friday, the Catalan regional parliament, a legislature with 135 seats, voted 70-10 in favour …

/ /
Sometimes, political events happen so fast, involve so many actors and are so confusing that it is difficult to depict them in a way that appears fair to everyone. The …

/ /
“The Russians are already in the closet” Hungary’s Prime Minister, Mr Viktor Orbán, elaborated on the Eastern-Central European country’s future progress at a party meeting in September. He stated some …

/ /
Going back to France for a month (allegedly dedicated to revisions), I found myself enthralled by the political climate of the presidential elections to come this Sunday. French news certainly …

/ /
French students will need new textbooks: this is probably the only predictable outcome of the 2017 French presidential election as of now. 7 May 2017 will be a historic date …

/ /
How did Trump win? While there are many reasons behind his win, he was helped by thousands of automated social media accounts called botnets. Many of these pro-Trump social media …

/ /
A Debate for our Time: The election of Donald Trump indicates a foreign policy shift in the most powerful country in the world; the latest in a series of dramatic …

/ /
Author: Ryan Mitton, The London Globalist Frequent Contributor Denmark has recently made headlines by approving policy to confiscate the non-personal valuables and assets worth over 10,000 Kroner from refugees upon …

/ /
(Image credit: sctimes.com) It took three days and 20 deaths to see the siege which engulfed Paris come to an end. ‘Ironic’ cannot begin to describe the sequence of events …

/ /
Since last Wednesday, thousands of people have taken to the streets of Paris in response to the terrorist attack at the French satirist magazine Charlie Hebdo, and many more have …

/ /
So, Romania has had its presidential elections, and everything about it was delightfully innovative. Take one tiny (in terms of importance not surface area) poor country, ridden with corruption and …
SHARE

Europe (old)