by STEFAN LEHNE, HEATHER GRABBE
The EU should take Donald Trump’s arrival as U.S. president as a major wake-up call to upgrade its foreign and security policies. Trump’s comments on foreign policy during the election campaign suggest…
by Martin Mycielski
From its conception as the European Coal and Steel Community, through the fall of the Soviet bloc and up until the beginning of the global financial crisis, the EU was largely portrayed as…
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 JAN TECHAU
Is the refugee crisis a threat to the European Union’s existence? Listening to commentators and politicians alike, this seems to be the overall consensus today. Porous borders let in too many alien subjects,…
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 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,…
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 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 Christos Mouzeviris
The result of the second Greek general election in September 2015 saw the Leftist party of Syriza, remaining in office. Although without its more radical members, who broke away after the party’s leader…
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by Christos Mouzeviris
Last year’s European Parliament elections sent a clear message to the continent’s establishment. Apart from a very low voter turnout, the citizens turned to populist, radical political parties, significantly altering…