I was fascinated by Peter Fischer Brown’s suggestion that there are people in the Brexit camp who believe that a no-deal Brexit the hard way…
I was fascinated by Peter Fischer Brown’s suggestion that there are people in the Brexit camp who believe that a no-deal Brexit the hard way…
This article was first published in the Times of Malta It’s the same old story. If you drop a frog in hot water, it immediately…
The German SPD Social Democratic party is in deep crisis. A reluctant coalition partner once again with Angela Merkel’s CDU, poll ratings place the SPD…
It occasionally sends a frisson of political fear down the backbone when you hear about a centrist politician like Macron booed in affluent areas of…
“Queue-jumping”, “swamped” by migrants, caravans of migrants threatening to invade. The anti-migrant rhetoric especially of the far right, currently in the ascendancy across the UK,…
This article was first published in the Times of Malta The Rome-Brussels standoff over the Italian budget plans could not come at a worse time…
In this issue of our Globalization Outlook, we look at the future of the WTO as well as developments in big tech, universities’ global ambitions…
Ongoing tensions in the federal coalition, the disastrous showing for the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria, the CSU, in the Bavarian elections and now a…
Too often, Europeans are unable to express themselves clearly on the strategic issues that are of primary concern. Towards China, the European powers have, for…
Why did the Turkish President’s visit to Germany on 28 and 29 September leave us with a diffuse feeling of unease? There is nothing wrong…
Next Spring, European citizens will vote for the new European Parliament. There are many reasons to believe that 2019 elections will be the most significant…
Many European leaders have welcomed the vote of the Strasbourg Parliament on September 11 which, following the proposal of a Dutch environmentalist, opened a procedure…