View Stop Orban exporting his informational autocracy across Europe | View "In the last few years, Orbán’s post-truth regime has exported its tactics. It gives a helping hand to like-minded "illiberals" in the Western Balkans with media, political consultancy, diplomatic support and money."
View Germany must keep the lights on without burning down the house | View "A diversified supply, capable of meeting our energy needs now without compromising our climate goals – it's a tricky prospect to pull off, but failure is not an option," argues Thomas Matussek. 26/08/2022
View I've hope for international justice despite ICC's bumpy history | View James A. Goldston assesses the success of international criminal justice to mark the 20th anniversary of the International Criminal Court. 05/07/2022
View Blinkered by Ukraine, world waits for African children to die | View With 1.8 million children's lives in danger and only a 'tiny, shrinking window' to prevent disaster, the G7 and international community must act, says Rania Dagash of UNICEF. 24/06/2022
View Don't wait for war in Moldova before giving clear EU signal | View "Confirming Moldova’s EU candidacy and outlining a robust integration policy would not only send a strong signal against Russian destabilisation attempts but would also rally the Moldovan people, who are eager for change." 22/06/2022
View It's finally time to say 'yes' to Ukraine's European future | View Ukraine should be allowed to become an EU candidate country, argues Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center think tank in Kyiv. 15/06/2022
View Letter from Indonesia: The EU and Southeast Asian nations are stronger together | View Airlangga Hartarto, co-ordinating minister of economic affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, tells us why he believes the EU should forge stronger economic bonds with his country and its neighbours. 02/06/2022
View Don't let Ukraine war eclipse other humanitarian crises | View Wealthy countries in Europe are using Ukrainian refugees as a pretext to cut their aid budgets just when they're needed most, warns Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council. 01/06/2022
View Biden foresaw Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So did Syrians | View "Russian forces entered Syria on 30 September 2015. I have not lost memory of the harrowing events. I knew Putin would invade Ukraine." 09/05/2022
View 'Ukraine-washing', a new gambit for embattled European politicians From the UK to Romania, leaders have used the Ukraine conflict to shore up their support at home. 05/05/2022
View The myth far-right zealots run Ukraine is Russian propaganda | View "The West’s inability to properly understand the Azov movement has led to the spread of damaging anti-Ukraine propaganda in the media." 12/04/2022
View Saudis will cover up Khashoggi murder if case is sent there | View As Russia's war in Ukraine causes the tectonic plates of geopolitics to shift, Agnes Callamard argues that we must not allow justice for Jamal Khashoggi to fall through the fault lines. 06/04/2022
View Russia has already declared war on the EU and NATO | View "Russia has already declared war on NATO, on the EU, on their founding principles and values. Ukraine is just the battlefield on which that war is being fought." 06/04/2022
View 'If you are Black you can walk': Africans are facing racism in Ukraine Africans have faced racial discrimination while trying to flee Ukraine, but this is not an isolated issue. Systematic racism has set Africans up to receive maltreatment, even in times of crisis. 01/04/2022
View Hungary’s election may spark the next crisis for the EU | View "Fidesz slowly stripped the guarantees for fair elections out of the system – a death by a thousand cuts," argues Michael Meyer-Resende, speaking about this Sunday's election in Hungary. 30/03/2022
View Ukraine paying the price of EU's energy dependency on Russia | View "At the start of March, as Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian cities, the EU was paying Russia around €800 million a day for gas — drastically undercutting the economic impact of Western sanctions and funding the war." 29/03/2022
View Kosovo remembers Madeleine Albright, the autocrat's worst enemy | View Albright stayed true to her conviction that people were entitled to decide their own fate no matter who their neighbors happened to be. 25/03/2022
View Orban is trying a daunting balancing act over the Ukraine war | View "At a time when most of the right-wing leaders across Europe are distancing themselves from Putin, Orban is attempting a daunting balancing act." 17/03/2022
View Russia’s war on Ukraine is a live test for European sovereignty | View "The response to the Russian attack on Ukraine is a live test of European sovereignty and our ability to protect the European way of life." 10/03/2022
View UN Security Council must meet in Kyiv to help end Putin's war | View This is the worst crisis Europe has faced since 1945. It is also the most dangerous. 09/03/2022
View One view prevails in Russia - that of madness and destruction | View "So, now in Russia, there is no organised opposition to Putin’s war. No mass protests. No critical debate on TV channels entirely controlled by Putin and his cronies." 07/03/2022
