by Roland Freudenstein
A tentative response to a groundbreaking US election.
Of course, the election of Donald Trump to 45th President of the United States is an unmitigated disaster for the US, for the West and therefore…
by Heather Grabbe & Stefan Lehne
September 8, 2016
EU leaders will meet in Bratislava on September 16 to reflect on how to move forward after the June 23 British referendum decision to leave the union. They…
by Alexander Shea*
I stayed up to watch the election results in the end out of pure ‘disaster voyeurism.’ I had gotten out of bed in Lyon, France at four a.m. on the…
by Ralf Fücks
Great Britain will leave the EU. What does that mean for European Union going forward? What can be done to strengthen political unity within the Union? A commentary by Ralf Fücks.
Today is…
by THOMAS DE WAAL
The English red cross of St George is out, flying on flags on homes and cars across England. Of course, it’s about football first of all. England is playing in the Euro 2016…
by Sophie Heine
Introduction
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 Prof.Dr Sven Biscop
Knowing how to do things is not the same as knowing what you are doing. Think of the Ukraine crisis. The European Union (EU) rolled out the entire machinery of trade negotiations,…
by Julia Ann
Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that about all reformists had been butterfingers by…
by Peter Chase
Many European citizens are concerned about the concept of investor–state dispute settlement, which is frequently portrayed as giving companies the right to sue governments for lost profits in secret international courts. Those…
by Fabian Zuleeg
Given the potential impact on the EU, the UK‘s in/out referendum and the associated reform agenda should be high up the Brussels agenda. But, curiously, so far there has been little obvious activity…