The Ottoman Slap to Democracy
Quick wit, slow decline: Months after Turkish President Erdoğan threatened his American counterpart with delivering the infamous “Ottoman slap” in response to US support...
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...
“We Should Never Give Up Hope”
For two years now, the refugee crisis has dominated the news. The European
Union and UN agencies responsible for humanitarian aid have been...
Right-wing Extremism on the Move
By: Niklas Danninger (Managing Editor)
Originally founded in 2003 by French radicals as “Le bloc identitaire,” they have since spread to other European countries where...
The Women of Ukraine: Between Agency and Victimhood
Mainstream, or better said “male-stream,” interpretations of war are gender blind and peripheralize women’s experiences during armed conflict. Structured by masculine assumptions, they obscure...
In uncertain terms: How current narratives influence refugee integration
Strewn across the front page of newspapers and littered on News Feeds, Austria’s recent ban of the full-face veil in public places has been...
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 Macedonian Naming Dispute
By: Niklas Danninger (Managing Editor)
On October 21, the Macedonian parliament agreed to change the country’s name to Northern Macedonia, thereby ending Greece’s 27-year-blockade of...
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...
Victor Orbán’s political agenda?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been the subject of extensive media coverage lately. What is occasionally labelled as anti-EU rhetoric on the subject...
