All of this courtesy of an EU fund that is supposed to be aligned with Europe’s energy and climate targets and the Paris Agreement (Photo: jiva) Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European…
The scope of the EU's first-ever defence industrial strategy is limited to single market members, and Ukraine. This will not change unless the EU rethinks its approach (Photo: NATO) With an election looming in the UK, war raging in Ukraine,…
The European Space Agency is also looking to advance the space sustainability agenda (Photo: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016) In a complex, changing, and increasingly contested space environment, nations must adopt a more comprehensive approach to space governance. Indeed, the intersection of…
The Egyptian government briefly designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in 2015, but this move was overturned by Egyptian courts (Photo: euobserver) The ongoing Israel-Hamas war has had major political, economic, and security repercussions for Egypt, a country bordering both…
The presidency of the European Council is not to be assumed lightly at such a critical moment for Europe (Photo: Magnus Fröderberg) The end of Charles Michel’s mandate as president of the European Council this year comes at a time…
A survey last year found that 60 percent of British citizens in the EU feel politically unrepresented. More than three quarters of them became dual nationals after the Brexit referendum as a workaround solution (Photo: Wikipedia) A year after Rishi…
Viktor Orbán has doubled-down on his commitment to building out an ‘Eastern Opening’ in Hungarian foreign policy and become Beijing's most reliable partner within the EU (Photo: European Parliament) Chinese police officers may soon participate in joint patrols on the…
Alexei Nalany, here pictured in 2013 — before his poisoning with Novichok, followed by a 19-year sentence to an Arctic penal colony, where he died in unknown circumstances one year ago (Photo: Person Behind the Scenes) One month on from…
It is never too late to do the right thing and stop austerity 2.0. (Photo: Matt Tempest) “A week is a long time in politics,” a British prime minister once quipped during his country’s crises of the 1960s. But even…
No one would deny that wolves periodically kill farm animals — but the political attention that these large carnivores receive is disproportionate to the damage they cause (Photo: Darren Welsh) Over the past few years, farming and hunting organisations have…
The European Parliament’s forthcoming deliberations are decisive. The outcome will either pave the way for a competitive digital euro by 2026 or stifle its potential (Photo: Pexels) Over the next few weeks, the European Parliament will negotiate and vote on…
The Samoa Agreement was signed in November 2023. As of February 2024, 12 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries have not signed the agreement (Photo: European Union) Dear Editor, In response to Gilbert Onyango’s article, Energy and minerals disputes overshadow new…