EU-Balkan Summit: No Set Timeframe for Western Balkans Accession

On October 6, Slovenia hosted a summit between the EU and the Western Balkans states. The EU-27 met with their counterparts (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,...

German Election: Ramifications for the US Foreign Policy

In the recent German election, foreign policy was scarcely an issue. But Germany is an important element in the US foreign policy. There is...

Revisiting the Birthplace of Non-Aligned Movement

After 60 years, leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) returned to the organization's birthplace in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. During the two-day meeting hosted...

Is Kosovo Threatened by the European Far-Right? A Commentary on Forza Nuova and its Balkan Connections

The success that the Italian centre-left party Partito Democratico obtained in the administrative elections on October 3 and 4, led the press to believe...

AUKUS, the Indo-Pacific, and France’s Role: Fluctuat nec Mergitur

The announcement of the new AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the U.S. came as a shock for France. Paris has never been...

Erdogan the Likely Winner as Post-War Armenia Rethinks

It is only a year since Turkey demonstrated its new power in the South Caucasus, providing significant military and other help to Azerbaijan to...

Angela Merkel For History

If any speech by (still) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will go down in history, it will be the one she gave at the ceremony...

The European Green Deal as an EU-Arctic Foreign Policy Tool

Authors: Gabriella Gricius and Andreas Raspotnik* As a transformational effort to change how the European economy operates and with the goal of reaching climate neutrality...

AUKUS: Returning to de Gaulle or a Storm in a Teacup?

France’s anger at the US-UK-Australia (AUKUS) deal to build nuclear submarines in Australia is palpable but understandable, since Australia has reneged on a multi-billion-euro...

A German Success Story

At the helm for 16 years, Angela Merkel exhibited a light touch.  Germany prospered; in fact has been the most prosperous EU nation.  After...

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