by Selin Nasi
After months of negotiations, Turkey and Israel are expected to finalize a deal in imminent reconciliation talks scheduled for June 26. Officials from both sides have been working on a magic formula…
06/21/2016 Brussels
Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani as saying:
♣ Europeans and westerners who have travelled to Iran say that they feel safer…
by Donald Armbrecht*
Europe is arguably the best continent for LGBT rights today. When asked which countries were most gay-friendly, a recent survey showed that 8 out of the top ten were in Europe.…
by JAN TECHAU
Is the refugee crisis a threat to the European Union’s existence? Listening to commentators and politicians alike, this seems to be the overall consensus today. Porous borders let in too many alien subjects,…
by Karl T. Muth
Karl Muth argues that both those voting to remain and those voting to ‘Brexit’ are likely to be disappointed once in the aftermath of the referendum.
Last week, I talked more…
by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza & Markus Heinrich
Clichés like “don’t mention the war” have given way to modern Germany becoming an unlikely moral example to the world.
For German-Turkish relations, the recent vote…
by Ilke Toygür & Melih Özsöz
Aspired facilitation of the issuance of visas for Turkish nationals to the European Union have a long history. With the latest version of the refugee deal the date for visa liberalisation seemed…
by Heather Grabbe & Stefan Lehne
The 2016 Austrian presidential election was emblematic of a rising trend in European politics: voters rejected mainstream parties in favor of outsider candidates, resulting in the first Green head of state in…
by Viktoria Jancosekova
25 years after the foundation of the Visegrad Group is a good time to evaluate its role and to take a look at its current functioning within the EU. A historic goal of…
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by Gregoriana Tudoran*
The history of how the leasing company Caterpillar Financial has succeeded in surviving the whirlpools of…