David Harrison is a lawyer, former diplomat and speechwriter, author of several books on European economic and financial questions and a member of the Institut Jean Monnet. The most important news ...

Evgeny Antonov is a journalist and analyst based in Riga. He focuses on issues facing the Baltic States, Europe's strategic security challenges, the war in Ukraine, and the situation in Russia. He was ...

Marcus Schneider heads the FES regional project for peace and security in the Middle East, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he worked for the FES as head of the offices in Botswana and Madagascar ...

Amr Moussa, former Secretary-General of the Arab League, on the situation in the Middle East, Egypt’s role and the future for ...

With the disappointment of the 2023 counteroffensive and the shift to a brutal attritional war, the mood has darkened in the pro-Ukrainian information space. The West’s dramatic isolation over the ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

In 2023, the European Commission has rightfully put the spotlight on the urgent need to tackle Europe’s skills shortages by designating it the EU ‘Year of Skills’. While recognition is always a good ...

Sven Biscop teaches at the University of Ghent and heads the Europe in the World programme at Egmont — Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He is the author of This Is Not a New ...

The violence in South Africa is the result of decades of economic hardship and institutional failure. The government must abandon its austerity agenda ...

Canada—often viewed as a beacon of tolerance—has a growing white supremacist movement emboldened by events in the US When President Trump once again garnered international attention by not only ...

Read this article in German or Russian. In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that ...

Read this article in German. In 1990, Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen stated that ‘more than 100 million women are missing.’ What exactly did he mean by ‘missing’ here? Girls become ‘missing ...