by Aarti Shankar
The free trade deal between the EU and Canada, known as the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) currently hangs in the balance, with the Walloon regional parliament blocking Belgium from approving the…
by Michael Freund
October 2016 may well be remembered as a pivotal month, a further milestone in the downfall of the Tower of Babel that is the EU.
Barely a week has passed since the start…
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by Struan Stevenson
The revelation that the Obama administration paid Iran a ransom of almost half a billion dollars in cash…
by Gert Röhrborn
Over the last weeks Poland has witnessed an unprecedented mobilisation of women against the tightening of the abortion law. Our colleague Gert Röhrborn from our Warsaw office sheds light on recent events.
Last…
by Klaus Linsenmeier
Populists are a growing community fed first by the “euro-crisis” and later by the “immigration crisis”. Democrats need to investigate on the characteristics of populist policy making in order to bring up…
by Leopold Traugott *
Recently, Martin Schulz travelled to Turkey for the first time since the country’s failed coup in July. One of the main talking points on the agenda was the continuation of the…
by Ilya Zaslavsky
Yesterday Russia had an election that yet again disappointed hopes for a functional and reasonable parliament instead of “the mad printer” (that adopted all inhumane and reactionary laws given to it by presidential…
by Richard Youngs
The eurozone’s fourth-largest economy is in a desperately precarious position. By the time a likely third election is held in December, Spain will have been without a government for more than a year. The…
by A. Erdi Öztürk
Regrettably, some of the representatives of European Union, have been giving a bad account of themselves regarding the recent developments that are still unfolding especially after the bloody coup attempt in…
by Stephen Booth
There is, it is said, an intense dispute in the Cabinet about whether Brexit should mean that the UK leaves the EU’s “customs union”.
Turkey, which is the only country outside the EU…