T he short-term economic effects of the COVID-19 and the lockdown measures adopted across Europe in response to the pandemic are causing significant pressure for public spending. As national budgets and the EU’s…
A s part of our Vocal Cast series supported by Science 14, we have talked to H.E Bujar Osmani, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, North Macedonia. The issues discussed included, inter alia, EU…
B alance is never achieved in politics, and the European Union is the paramount example of that. Brussels is still exhausted by last month’s negotiations over the Multiannual Financial Framework. The Frugal Four (Austria,…
T he European Strategic Autonomy has been discussed a lot since 2016, when the European Global Strategy was introduced.[1] The main aim of this paper would be to analyse what the strategic autonomy means,…
A s part of our Vocal Cast series, we have talked to Pierre Vimont, who is former Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service and a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. During the…
T he saga, surrounding the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), finally came to an end this February (2019) with a brand new North Macedonia label stamped over the old contested…
T he row between the US and Russia over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty began in July 2014, when the US State Department published a Compliance Report, alleging “that the Russian Federation [was]…
R ussia, the United States, France, and China held secret talks on cybersecurity in Paris last week to produce something akin to a “Treaty of Westphalia” for cyberspace. In this way, they hope to…
O n November 25, Russian border patrol boats seized three Ukrainian naval vessels in the Azov Sea — two artillery boats and a tugboat — as they were attempting to pass through the Kerch…
T he concept of a European army has been widely discussed in the past years and particularly weeks, raising many questions about the possibility of such an idea becoming a reality. Where did the…