The AKP Era: The Troubled Relationship Between Misogyny and the Istanbul Convention
On July 1st 2021, Turkey withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (VAW) and domestic violence, also...
Nordstream 2: From Commercial Project to Russia’s Geopolitical Gamble
“These days, energy policy is always geopolitical,” asserted German Vice-Chancellor and Economic Affairs and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck of the Green Party. He...
Polexit will not happen, but Poland will continue to challenge the EU
When in 966, Mieszko, a local duke from the Western Slavic tribe of Poland, adopted Christianity by employing the Western Latin rite, he not...
Polish-Polish War: The Thing About Unstoppable Divison
In 2016, the Polish singer Maria Peszek sang that when it comes to Polish society, “everything divides us, nothing connects us,” and she described...
The End of an Era – Angela Merkel’s Legacy
After more than 16 years in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not run in the federal elections in September 2021. After four consecutive...
Losing Faith? The Role of the Catholic Church in Contemporary Poland
On the night of October 30, 2020, a peculiar atmosphere reigned in Poland’s capital Warsaw. The sky was lit up by the blue lights...
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...
