Inside Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship
Belarus has recently made the global headlines with the hijacking of a Ryanair flight to arrest the opposition journalist Roman Protasevich. To gain an inside…
Geopolitics
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Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, travelled to Turkey to meet the Turkish president…
EU Digital Tax: Building blocks for a successful European Tax Strategy
Europe is facing complex economic challenges which should be answered by well thought-out policy schemes. It is the belief that the European Union’s ambition should…
Values for Sale. The price for running a budget
How many more times treat me the way you wanna do? How many more times treat me the way you wanna do? When I give…
The century long quest for a European Islam
“School can do everything” used to say Samuel Paty, the 47 years old French History and Geography teacher that was beheaded at the school exit…
Setting the Sun on the British Empire
‘To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s’. In this line from Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky evokes…
Coronavirus: Re-emergence of the Sovereign
The sovereign is the one who decides on the exception. Coronavirus is today’s exception. The COVID-19 pandemic which is gripping the world has induced states…
The Resilience of the Chinese Government in Face of Coronavirus
Early in 2020, the Chinese government was facing a serious legitimacy crisis after the Wuhan government was found to conceal the Coronavirus outbreak. By the…
The Old Man and the South China Sea
China’s overextension into disputed waters has more implications than just a few lost ships. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a…
Ethics for Everyone: We Are the World?
Have you ever dreamt of world peace ? In the likely event that you did, you surely pictured a world not only rid of wars,…
Balancing the Narrative: the Hong Kong protests from a mainlander’s perspective
As the world rang in a new decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping took to state media in his New Year’s address, praising China’s domestic achievements…
The case for a carbon Tax
Policy makers and business leaders are meeting up for the next two weeks in Madrid at the COP25 to discuss how to reach the goal…
