Articles

Anna Arutunyan - 19 May 2016

It’s not that pop culture has been weaponised. It’s more that Russia’s geopolitical adventures over the last several years owe at least as much, if not more, to Jerry Springer as they do to Soviet military doctrines.

Josef Janning - 19 May 2016

Poland appears to be firmly anchored among the six large member states of the EU, seen as more important than Spain.

Duncan Depledge and Dmitriy Tulupov - 17 May 2016

Pending any major breakthrough in Ukraine or Syria, Brussels needs to decide whether it is willing to compromise its position on Ukraine (perhaps by excluding the Russian offshore Arctic from sanctions) for the sake of symbolic recognition at the Arctic Council of its Arctic interests.

Susi Dennison - 17 May 2016

The political crisis surrounding the handling of refugee inflows in the EU has now reached a stage where there is too much bad blood for a “more of the same” approach to have much hope of working.

Fredrik Wesslau - 16 May 2016

The lack of progress on the Minsk agreement means not only that the condition of fully implementing the agreement remains unfulfilled - it has also effectively killed the idea of a partial easing of sanctions.

Andrew Lebovich - 12 May 2016

The kidnapping of four ICRC workers by prominent political figures in Mali indicates that the Jihadists might be holding the peace process hostage as well as its aid workers.

Almut Möller - 12 May 2016

Angela Merkel needs a set of policy alternatives that she can build on if Erdoğan does, in fact, let her down, or if he continues to raise the price tag, strengthening the voice of her critics at home and in Europe as a whole.

Mark Leonard - 11 May 2016

European migrants are supporting the social fabric of places such as Thurrock and keeping Britain’s creaking public services on life support.

Adam Baron - 10 May 2016

There must be a clear, coherent, and mutually agreed upon roadmap for dealing with the country’s varied issues, including blueprints for the federal system and, all importantly, the holding of parliamentary and presidential elections.