Boosting Women Entrepreneurship in the Med: Such a Mad Idea?
5Gender equality, anchored at the very heart of human rights, has been gaining considerable momentum over the course of the past few years. Still,...
Eurobonds: How They (Un)bond the Euro Area Member States
The idea of a joint debt mechanism emerged once more in the EU, propelled by the same “spendthrift” states and opposed by the same...
Paradise Lost – The Venezuelan Crisis and the Response of the International Community
Venezuela anguishes in what is being described as the country’s worst economic, social and political crisis to date. A combination of low oil prices,...
Russia’s Pension Reform: A Necessary Evil?
By: Ruben Hirsch (Guest Writer)
On August 29, Vladimir Putin took the rare step of appearing on national television to address the Russian nation. In...
Power Shifts after Britain’s Drift
By: Maria Lohmann (Guest Writer)
With Brexit looming around the corner, France and Germany will soon be left with the responsibility of filling the power...
NextGenerationEU: The Right Solution for the COVID-19 Pandemic?
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world are facing a serious economic crisis. The European Union is no exception. To...
Black Gold Mine
By: Gulshan Bashirova (Guest Writer)
The Caspian Sea is shared by the Transcaucasian and Central Asian countries Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan. The biggest oil and...
From War Zones to Auction Houses: The Journey of Smuggled Cultural Objects
Somewhere in an Afghan village not far from Kabul, a bronze figurine dating back some eighteen thousand years is picked up at an archeological...
Compromises & Constraints: The Keys to The Encryption Debate?
End-to-end (E2E) encryption-the highest publicly available standard for securing digital communications-is under threat from governments concerned about its implications for public safety and security....
Don’t ask what You can do for Nature… but what Nature can do...
Environmentalists have tirelessly pointed to the global environmental degradation. Many ecosystems such as wetlands, boreal areas and coral reefs have disappeared due to industrialization,...