by Caroline Ausserer
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Ten years ago, in 2006, a distinguished group of international human rights experts elaborated the Yogyakarta Principles at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Their aim was normative: to codify what was known…
by Dr. Marcus Engler
Since the summer of 2015, Germany has been the target country for flows of refugees seeking sanctuary, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The influx of refugees has entirely dominated the political…
Vocal Europe
A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez…
by Alex Benjamin
0.41%. I want you to keep that number in mind. It’s important in the context of the current UK Labour Party woes over Anti-semitism. That’s the percentage that British Jews…
by Marc Pierini
In absolute terms, the citizens of Turkey deserve visa-free access to the EU—much like close EU neighbors such as Serbia or faraway countries like Paraguay already enjoy—due to the intensity of trade, financial,…
by Wojciech Jakóbik
The recurring provocations make this a real possibility. The number of military incidents may increase.
Polish and Russian submarines would have collided in the Baltic Sea last week, according to the Polish news…
by STEFAN LEHNE
Europe’s refugee crisis initially drove EU member states apart. Confronted in mid-2015 with a mass inflow of asylum seekers that threatened internal political stability, member states returned to the logic of narrow national…
by Mirko Moser-Abt
The migrant crisis and the subsequent political turmoil have banished from our minds a conflict that has been fairly present in Europe for the past two years: the war in Eastern Ukraine. Initially…
Solon Ardittis *
So, how is the EU-Turkey agreement beginning to perform three weeks after its official launch? The ‘First Report on the progress made in the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement’, published by the…
by Teona Lavrelashvili
In recent years mainstream political parties on both the right and the left have been confronted with new challenges. For the centre-right, recent electoral results in Slovakia and, to a much lesser extent,…