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How EU should use economic influence on Western Sahara

Brussels and Rabat seemed committed to preserving the contested EU-Morocco deal (Photo: Western Sahara Resource Watch) Since hostilities between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front in Western Sahara resumed in November 2020, the EU has been reluctant to play an…

Covid as Medusa’s raft

Théodore Géricault painting of The Raft of the Medusa, which hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Photo: Wikimedia) In 1816, the Frigate of Medusa, sailing from France to Senegal for the purpose of colonisation, sank in Mauritanian waters. Of the…

Sunday’s election in Hong Kong – what EU can do

Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019 (Photo: etan liam) On Sunday, the Hong Kong SAR regime is set to appoint a parliament packed full of communist party loyalists in the city’s first general election since Beijing’s overhaul of the electoral…

Gas and nuclear: a lose-lose scenario for Eastern Europe

Several inherent risks of nuclear energy, from the disaster potential, to waste management over hundreds of thousands of years, or uranium mining, were not properly addressed in the report commissioned by the European Commission (Photo: IAEA Imagebank) After a year-long…

The EU Eastern Partnership summit – a rethink needed

‘The internal problems of the EaP countries and external threats posed to them by Russia will, if unchecked, lead to backsliding – if not worse' (Photo: Pixabay) Recently growing tensions in eastern Europe, such the Belarusian-Polish border and migration crisis…