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�
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A war on immigration in Europe?
Migrants on Polish border (Photo: Telegram) To paraphrase a famous text, a spectre haunts Europe: the fear of migration. A fear fuelled by multiple centres of persuasion and power, including…
Where Germany’s Greens and FDP will collide on environment
Annalena Baerbock. While the Greens aim to protect the environment from polluting industries, the FDP is essentially hoping to liberate these industries from stringent regulations (Photo: Flickr/Dirk Vorderstraße) New German…
‘Agriculture as sovereignty’ under the French EU presidency
Emmanuel Macron at the Berlaymont HQ. France's agriculture minister has already argued that the EU should 'export its standards, and stop having foreign standards imposed on its own single market�
Could north Cyprus unilaterally join euro to escape Turkey’s lira?
The militarised 'Green Line' demarcating Turkish-recognised North Cyprus from Cyprus – it currently also divides the island between the Turkish lira and the euro (Photo: Marco Fieber) The Northern part…
Osman Kavala in a Turkish jail – taking injustice personally
At its London headquarters, Amnesty International has a large sign emblazoned in a hallway encouraging you to ‘Take Injustice Personally’. In Europe, there is a prominent victim of injustice whose…
How to ‘Europeanise’ the upcoming French EU presidency?
The upcoming French presidency of the EU Council will most likely be perturbed by the presidential elections scheduled for April 2022, during which Emmanuel Macron will want to show his…