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…
In recent months, Ukraine has found itself back in the global spotlight amid a fresh bout of Kremlin saber-rattling that has sparked fears of a full-scale Russian invasion. As has often been the case throughout the past eight years of…
The Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert Service posted record-breaking audience figures in 2021, with alarm over a possible escalation in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War helping to generate high levels of international interest in Ukrainian issues throughout the year. Unsurprisingly, the top ten…
The looming threat of a full-scale Russian invasion poses a wide range of questions for the Ukrainian military. Currently, most US experts are confident that the threat is very real and should be taken seriously. Are the Ukrainian Armed Forces…
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…
Two trillion euros, in fact. Such huge financial injections into EU economies can come with well-documented risks of embezzlement, corruption and corporate capture of public money (Photo: Michal Jarmoluk) At over two trillion euros, the long term EU budget and…
What was behind the resignation of David Frost as UK “Brexit Minister”, and would it be enough to halt the declining UK-EU relations? Dick Roche shares his thoughts. Dick Roche is a former Irish Minister for European Affairs and former…
Phil Waldron, who owns a bar in Texas, is a case study in how pro-Trump fringe players managed to get a hearing for conspiracy theories at the highest level during the presidential transition. The House committee investigating the events of…
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it will speed up the timeline for ending its extraordinary aid to the economy — a likely first step toward raising interest rates during the 2022 election year to help fend off heightened inflation.…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has succeeded in attracting the world’s attention by concentrating a vast invasion force along his country’s border with Ukraine and issuing a series of ultimatums to Western leaders. For now, discussion is firmly focused on Putin’s…