The Politics of Difference: Italy’s Nationalist Turn and the Struggle between “New” and “Old” Italians
Nationalism
has permeated Italian politics more than other Western European countries. In
all the elections that have been held since 2018 the right-wing nationalist
parties of Lega...
Greece and Russia: Back to the Truman Doctrine?
Britain’s well-known keenness to keep Russia, and then the Soviet Union,
and now again just Russia, away from the Eastern Mediterranean is a
well-established fact of...
Municipal elections in Paris: Will the city of light be up to the challenge of environmental issues?
In recent months, cities around the world have
taken the lead in the race towards the environmental revolution. With every new
municipal election, higher commitments are...
Political and Economic interests of Japan in South Caucasus: Perspectives of Cooperation
Though Japan was among the first to recognize the independence of three
South Caucasus states, relations with Tbilisi, Yerevan and Baku remained
limited in the 1990s....
A new dawn for Europe
Authors: David
Sassoli, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen*
As the night
draws in this evening, the sun will set on more than 45 years of...
The Fate of the Gray Area in Europe
There is a considerable territory between Russia and the European
heartland. It runs from the Scandinavian peninsula in the north to the Black
Sea in the...
Drawing battle lines: Centre-right parties take on civilisationalism
The Centrist Democrat International (CDI), in an attempt to counter
the rise of civilizationalist states and leaders, has called for the creation of an alliance...
The right to affordable housing: Europe’s neglected duty
Increasingly making the headlines, the scarcity of affordable housing in
Europe is a serious and growing problem that pushes an ever-larger number of
people into housing...
Revisiting the Ukraine- Russia- EU triangular dynamics
With the narrative that floats around, one is tempted to think
that the Ukraine crisis is all about Crimea; that it started and ended there.
So...
UK-US relations: Challenges ahead
The past few days have been
witness, to some important statements made in the context of the Joint
Comprehensive Program for Action (JCPOA) -- also referred...