The Bulgarian Crisis – Numerous Opinions, Zero Solutions

The challenges Bulgaria is facing are manifold. To make matters even worse, besides the health crisis and dire economic situation, there is the concern...

Labor Trafficking in the age of a pandemic – exploiting the new “normal”

While the COVID-19 pandemic has put the world into lockdown, according to watchdog groups, human trafficking is soaring in Europe. As the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Confinement Conundrum

Since the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in December 2019, there has been an increase in cases of domestic violence worldwide due to...

Fortress Europe: Exporting an inhumane border regime

Despite a globalized world that seems to be growing ever smaller and increasingly interconnected, more and more borders are being constructed and fortified. What...

Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration: A Realistic or an Idealistic Aspiration?

The seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization marked a groundbreaking moment in the history of the security alliance. Facing criticism, questioning the...

Disunited Kingdom: Is the Union on the verge of breakup?

Recent political movements for Welsh and Scottish independence amidst Brexit turmoil could mean the end of the United Kingdom.  On May 11, 2019, thousands of...

The Future of the ECB: From “Super Mario” to “Superwoman”

Christine Lagarde, new President of the European Central Bank, has inherited low interest rates, sluggish growth and a divided Council. As of November 1, 2019,...

What’s behind the NOTRE DRAME fire.

The heart of the “grande nation” began to weep as the French witnessed the cradle of their history burning in the Notre-Dame fire in...

Ukrainian Elections 2019: The Voices of the People

By: Matthias Maxim Penkin (Guest Writer) After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, for a long time the Western world has only been interested...

Profession or Oppression? The Rekindling of the Prostitution Policy Debate

By: Sofia Hörder (Guest Writer) Prostitution is legal, liberalised and regulated in many European countries, including the Netherlands. Sweden, Norway, France and Ireland have, however,...

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