Northern Irish Peace: Overlooked and Unresolved
For decades, Northern Ireland was closely associated with violence and armed conflict. With the conclusion of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the three...
Europe’s Hotspot of Remote Abortion
The start of 2021 saw a surprising addition to countries progressively liberalizing their abortion laws: this January, abortion during the first 14 weeks of...
Strategic Foresight – The New-Old Approach to 21st Century Statecraft
Strategic foresight (SF) has been put high on the EU agenda by the Von der Leyen Commission from the outset of its mandate. The...
Democratic Values? France’s Double Standards in the Ivorian Political Crisis
Unconstitutionally extending presidential terms is a common practice in African politics. Between 1995 and 2015, twenty-three heads of states reached their term limits and...
Media Pluralism and Media Freedom Under Threat in Hungary?
Enshrined in the European Charter on Fundamental Rights and in the European Convention of Human Rights, media freedom and media pluralism are inadmissible elements...
Armenia’s Old Wound – Will It Ever Heal?
This year, on 27 September, an old wound between Armenia and Azerbaijan was reopened. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, referred to as the Artsakh conflict by...
Folly of a Nation: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
With the world’s preoccupation with COVID-19 and the subsequent economic and social crises, few people could have been prepared for one of the bloodiest...
German Politics in the Age of COVID-19: Managing an Unstable Advantage
The COVID-19 crisis has reshaped German politics. The effectiveness of Merkel’s measures was a blessing for her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). They...
Headline “BELARUS” – Story “LOCATION-DEPENDENT”
In the midst of mass demonstrations raging across Belarus, the heads of state and government of the European Union took a united stance on...
The Farm to Fork Strategy: A Green Transition for the EU Common Agricultural Policy?
Lying at the heart of the European Commission's Green Deal, announced in March 2020 by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the Farm to...
