The Black Sea’s strategic importance is increasingly evident in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s ...
While Russia remains a potent player in parts of Africa, recent events in the Sahelian states have shown that Russian forces ...
The EU is falling behind the US and China in the digital realm. It urgently needs a new agenda combining innovation, security ...
The CJEU has blocked the EU’s inclusion of Western Sahara in its trade and fishery agreements with Morocco. The bloc should ...
The EU vote in favour of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles has exposed divisions across EU member states on how to ...
Europe’s rapidly changing geopolitical position is causing Switzerland to rethink elements of its neutrality. This dramatic ...
Mutual aid and civilian representative groups have proven their capability and deserve deeper European backing ...
Gulf monarchies’ interest in the eastern Mediterranean has been growing steadily in the past few years, bringing the rivalries between them ever closer to the heart of Europe. One of the major ...
This local branch of the Islamic State group (ISIS) was at first self-proclaimed, the outgrowth of a schism within MUJAO. The group’s leader, the former MUJAO commander Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, ...
The European Foreign Policy Scorecard is an innovative project that provides a systematic annual assessment of Europe’s performance in dealing with the rest of the world. The scorecard assesses the ...
Europeans have not yet decided how to respond to the US “pivot” to Asia but became more vocal about maritime disputes in East Asia in 2012. Sanctions on Burma were suspended. The EU has wide-ranging ...
Turmoil in the Middle East and north Africa directly affects Europeans. Yet their influence in the region has never been weaker. The region has been in flux since the wave of Arab uprisings began in ...