by Pieter Cleppe
Open Europe’s Pieter Cleppe writes for Dutch daily De Volkskrant that a proposal by Belgian Migration Secretary Theo Francken to make it mandatory for asylum seekers to apply for asylum in ‘hotspots’…
by John Bruton
Next June the people of the UK may vote to leave the European Union. At the moment, a narrow majority favours remaining in the EU, but a large group are undecided. That group…
by Solon Ardittis
One of the conclusions of the informal meeting of EU home affairs ministers on 25-26 January 2016 was to entrust the European Commission with the preparation of a two-year suspension of the…
by David Hearst
Nearly four months into its intervention, Russia is an active combatant in the Syrian civil war. This is not just an assertion. It is borne out by casualty figures and the…
by JUDY DEMPSEY
When the center-right Civic Platform party ran the Polish government from 2007 to 2015, it could do no wrong. That was the reputation it earned from several of its European Union partners.
The…
by Raoul Ruparel
Writing on Forbes Open Europe's Raoul Ruparel looks at some of the key events to watch in Europe in 2016.
Needless to say 2015 has not been a particularly good year for Europe and…
by Judy Dempsey
Judy Asks: What Will Be the Big Foreign Policy Story of 2016?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy…
by Paul Rogers
Twelve years ago, George W Bush gave his “Mission Accomplished” speech from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, confident that the Saddam Hussein regime had been consigned to…
by Andreas Takis
2015 is a hallmark year for migration to the EU. It is the year when the impasses of European migration policy manifested themselves in an explosive fashion. The massive influx of Syrian refugees…
by David Held and Kyle McNally
In the short term, Europe can only survive as a way of solving common problems, worth having insofar as the EU stabilises crises and protects the economic wellbeing…