The Brussels effect
It is estimated that there are 15,000 lobbyists in Brussels, comprising some 2,000 lobbies that work to ensure that EU...
Read moreWhat does NATO’s enlargement to Eastern Europe teach us 25 years on?
Twenty-five years ago on March 12th, Czechia, Poland, and Hungary became the first countries from the former "Eastern Bloc" to...
Read morePact or war, Milei’s latest offer
By hook or by crook; with or without the political backing of Parliament, Javier Milei has offered the parliamentary majority...
Read moreWho placed the flag of victory over the Nazis at the top of the Reichstag?
Many people think that the iconic photo of a Soviet soldier placing the flag on top of the Reichstag building,...
Read moreUkraine: more than a war
24 February 2022 did not only change the history of Ukraine. The Russian invasion, decreed by Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime,...
Read moreOpposing Putin, a high-risk profession
With the death of the last great adversary of the Russian tsar, Vladimir Putin, it is very unlikely that, in...
Read moreDiplomacy, foreign policy and external action
These three terms - diplomacy, foreign policy and foreign action - would serve to summarise to the maximum the very...
Read moreSenegal puts democracy at stake
The economic situation in Senegal has deteriorated in recent years, first because of the pandemic and then because of the...
Read moreResult-based democracy in El Salvador
Arresting and imprisoning more than 75,000 people in a country like El Salvador, similar in size to the province of...
Read moreThe forthcoming enlargement of the European Union
EU enlargement is becoming not only a formidable instrument for promoting the economic development of the candidate countries, but also...
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