by MARC PIERINI
The West used to see Turkey as a reliable ally. From the height of the Cold War to the heyday of the country’s EU accession negotiations in the late 2000s, the Turkish republic…
by Vladimir Milov
What have we learned and what are the implications for Putin and for relations between Russia and the West from the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal? Here's what we know so far.
Substantial evidence of Putin's…
by Richard Youngs
Since the Euromaidan antigovernment protests in 2013–2014, Ukraine has made some progress along the path of democratization. The country’s government has stalled on many reform imperatives, however, and has recently been mired in…
by Sophie Heine
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The recent attacks in Brussels have left everyone in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe in shock. People feel more and more helpless in the face of what seems to be, after the attacks…
by Selcuk Gultasli
Last week, EUobserver reported that EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker got mad when he heard about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s request that a video mocking him on a German TV…
by Vince Chadwick & Maia De La Baume
The decision to label settlement goods causes friction within the bloc and strains ties with a staunch ally. Israel’s U.S. ambassador sent gift boxes for the 2015 holiday season…
by Martin Arnold
European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. Belgium’s KBC, Germany’s DZ Bank…
by Ahmet Erdi Ozturk
Starting from the second half of 2015, there has been an increase in multi-sided violence in south-east Turkey. There have been a number of attacks including suicide attacks by ISIS, and…
by Kabir Taneja*
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to make one of his more important foreign sojourns this month, as he prepares to visit Iran for a two-day official visit beginning on…
by Vladimir Slivyak
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Coal is one of the dirtiest industries in Russia. Apart from hydropower, renewable energy is practically non-existent. Civil society groups that might push for more sustainable sources of power are few and far…