[dropcap size=small]S tarting yesterday in Mashad, typically known as one of the most religious cities in the country, and spread widely today to many cities across the nation; a series of protests have taken…
T here are currently about 44 million Muslims living in Europe, out of which some 20 million live in the European Union. Precise numbers are impossible to come by. If the 20 million figure…
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A fter firing back at Donald Trump on the nuclear deal, Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran since 2013, delivered a surprising speech to Parliament on December 10th 2017 in Tehran calling…
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O ver the course of the past two or three years, Kazakhstan has lost some of its positive image within the post-Soviet space. Only a few years back, the country was…
I t has been the four years since corruption scandals implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his family members and prominent high-level politicians and bureaucrats were revealed to the country on December 17 and 25,…
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W ithin the now all-consuming drive of Emmanuel Macron, Guy Verhofstadt and other European leaders to reform the EU, the European gaze has once again focused entirely on the core western…
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[dropcap size=small]O n 17 December, Vocal Europe published the article “NGOs in Europe: On Transparency and Double Standards”, in…
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B efore the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Brussels Summit (November 2017), there were many polemics associated with competing language of the summit’s declaration on unresolved conflicts and the new EU-Azerbaijan agreement. The…
[dropcap size=small]T he Middle East is burning. In Syria, half a million people have been murdered in the bloodiest civil war of the century; in Egypt, constant terror attacks are the new normal; in…
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T ransparency is a big and oft-heard word these days in Brussels. Every week dozens of private companies and…