More: European Union
The Brexit issue
Currently Great Britain’s annual net budgetary transfers to the European Union amount to 13 billion pounds. In various forms, every year the European Union...
Thinking about Germany
What is Germany's current role within the EU and in the global economic system? Which game is it playing? These are questions which cannot...
In defense of the European Parliament: China is not a market economy
Sometimes the driest debates lead to the hottest arguments. That paradox was on full display on May 12th when the European Parliament set out...
Natural Gas – A Game Changer for European Geopolitics
In 1945, Europe became bifurcated along two ideological camps; communism and capitalism. As the iron curtain-shrouded Europe, the geopolitical divide was defined. Nowhere was...
Germany and Italy within the European Union
No one is really fine in the European gas chamber but - just to paraphrase Orwell - someone is finer than the others. It...
The sanctions against the Russian Federation and Italy
For the United States and the now brainless Europe, initially the Russia-EU Summit in Sochi in March 2014 had been cancelled due to the...
The Ticking Time Bomb: The Chinese Economy
While President Obama continues to gloat that the US economy (and by extension the global economy) was rectified and on the path to growth...
Thailand – will diplomacy work?
If it weren’t so sad, the state of affairs in Thailand following the May 2014 coup would be laughable. As Thailand inches its way...
Natural Gas and the ‘Lesser’ Caspians: How New Players Might be Good for Everyone
Energy: what was once a largely single-resource/two-state controlled industry has given way to other resources of significance. In turn, this has also given rise...
Is Caucasus the next Syria – Don’t forget OSCE
The recent all-shoot out in Azerbaijan between the ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani forces brought yet another round of casualties, psychological traumas and property destructions....