W ith Joe Biden becoming the 46th President of the United States (US), a window of opportunity has been offered to the EU. Given the difference with his predecessor Donald Trump, this change…
D uring the night of 18 March 2020, Italian military vehicles took coffins from Bergamo cemetery to other regions' crematoriums after local services were unable to deal with the dead. The picture of…
P olitical relations between Serbia and China have evolved rapidly in the past decade, starting from the Kosovo War in 1999 when Serbia received support from China on issues of territorial integrity. Thereafter, the…
I n light of rapid global changes regarding the security environment and the deviations within the EU, The Global Strategy for the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) was drawn up on 28…
T he revival of military clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh on 27 September 2020, has once again faced the EU with the difficult task of managing a hot conflict in its…
D ecision-making rules in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) have been the subject of debates for many years. The unanimity requirement used in CFSP is seen by many as an obstacle…
T he European Defence Fund (EDF) is based on the article 173 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, which provides the legal framework for cooperation between the EU Member states through…
F or a number of years the EU has been hoodwinked by Turkey’s leader, now president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is a master practitioner of the art. Likewise, the US president, Barack Obama, who…
F or the past years, many economic indicators have been projecting what the world's leading political and economic powers would look like in 2020.[1] In these projections, China, Russia, India and the United States…
A t the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, Russia was considered less affected than other countries in fight against the pandemic. Despite sharing a long border with China, the number of COVID-19 cases…