A s part of our Vocal Cast series, we have talked to Tanja Fajon, who is a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Among the EU's response to multiple threats posed by Corona…
F or the past year, Israel has been facing a political deadlock, as parties failed to form a lasting coalition. During the March 2020 parliamentary elections, the third in less than a year, Israeli…
B alance is never achieved in politics, and the European Union is the paramount example of that. Brussels is still exhausted by last month’s negotiations over the Multiannual Financial Framework. The Frugal Four (Austria,…
I t has been four months now that the focus has been put on Western Balkans countries and the coming weeks will be of crucial importance for their future relation with the European…
M ore than eight years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains highly unstable, with major powers manoeuvring for influence in the region. Libya is today divided between the Libyan National Army (LNA)…
T he European Strategic Autonomy has been discussed a lot since 2016, when the European Global Strategy was introduced.[1] The main aim of this paper would be to analyse what the strategic autonomy means,…
M ore than four years have passed since the armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels began in the east of Ukraine, and especially in the Donbass region. A tangible truce…
V ocal Europe hosted an event on AI and its implications for diplomacy and EU foreign policy on the 8th October 2019. Organised as a panel discussion, the invited speakers brought up a variety…
T he assassination of Qassem Soleimani came in the wake of a long series of scuffles between the United States and Iran since 8 May 2019. A year after the US unilateral withdrawal from…
2 019 has been a strained year for the Western Balkans, marred by scandals, street demonstrations, bilateral tensions and the prevalence of divisive political stances. Against the backdrop of nationalist and authoritarian leaderships, many…