With deep sorrow just learned about Lithuania’s honorary consul in Lugansk Mr Mykola Zelenec kidnapped &brutaly killed by terrorists there. — Linas Linkevicius (@LinkeviciusL) August 22, 2014
What lies behind Europe’s murky oil deals with Azerbaijan?
Molly Scott Cato, MEP for South West UK, Green Group Beyond hosting the Eurovision song contest or Formula One, few of us in Britain, I suspect, know much about Azerbaijan. In fact, you may find yourself asking whether it really …
EU support for Kurdish forces in Iraq
Brendan O’Leary has been Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. He was an advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government during the making of Iraq’s Constitution. He was previously a Professor of Political Science at LSE, …
EU & Morocco
Iván Martín is Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Center of the European University Institute in Florence. He has followed EU-Morocco relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy for …
Foreign Affairs Council calls for an Extraordinary meeting
During the roundtable meeting the European ministers will discuss the situation in the Southern neighbourhood (notably Iraq) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCZzpmbEcs and the Eastern neighbourhood (Ukraine)
Europe in a world dominated by Asia
Craig James Willy is an EU affairs writer and a journalist with the German Press Agency (DPA). He has notably written political analysis for the Bertelsmann Foundation and media analysis for the European Commission. His French-English blog is available here. Economic …
Barroso in Brazil: A Never Ending Match?
Cinthia R Campos – PHD Candidate in Political Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil). Recently visiting resercher at Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL), at ULB. The World Cup is over, but the ball is still rolling between …
EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council
In a moment where a lot of attention is being paid to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), it is also important to bear in mind that the European Union (EU) was also negotiating, for 10 years, a Free …
MH17 & German-Russian relations
Germany has generally been assumed to have a more conciliatory foreign policy approach toward Russia over the Ukraine crisis than other European states such as Poland and the UK. Jocelyn Mawdsley writes on whether the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) …
The lesson from flight MH17
The crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) has provoked intense debate over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but what lessons should the crash have for aviation safety? Simon Bennett writes that we must learn from the experience of MH17 and other …