By Tamta Pantsulaia The three countries in the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – seem to be undergoing significant changes, as events in this region have evolved quite dynamically over the past decade. Regional and external powers, particularly Russia, Turkey and China pose a significant impediment to the political coherence of the SouthContinue reading “Realignment in the South Caucasus: Navigating Power Shifts and Partnerships”
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Heading to the Poles: Greenland, the EU, and the 2025 Election Year
By Julian Wood Greenland is everywhere at the moment. At no other time has it felt that the media were more interested in this huge Arctic territory and its frozen expanse of over 2 million square kilometres. With a US president, not for the first time, advocating a purchase (or a even military seizure), theContinue reading “Heading to the Poles: Greenland, the EU, and the 2025 Election Year”
Fico’s Gas Gamble: What Ukraine’s Gas Transit Halt Means for Slovakia
By Viktoriia Skoropadska The energy dependence on gas supplies from the Russian Federation played a cruel joke on the European Union after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At that time, it served as shock therapy for many EU countries, whose task over the next two years was to reorient themselves to otherContinue reading “Fico’s Gas Gamble: What Ukraine’s Gas Transit Halt Means for Slovakia”
EU Gets Ready for a “Protracted Conflict”: Unpacking the First-ever European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS)
By Aemi Desideri Introduction On 5 March 2024, the European Commission and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) presented the first-ever European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), a landmark initiative aimed at bolstering defence capabilities at the EU level. This strategy, designed to be “responsive” and “resilient” to the current challengesContinue reading “EU Gets Ready for a “Protracted Conflict”: Unpacking the First-ever European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS)”
Red Sea Crisis: A Geopolitical EU?
By Francesco Foti Introduction The Iran-backed Houthi attack on non-Chinese and non-Russian Suez Canal-bound ship vessels has exposed the breach between the EU and the US over the approach to security in the Middle East. The Houthi disruption to ship carriers and commercial, oil, and LNG shipments, which has forced the US and UK toContinue reading “Red Sea Crisis: A Geopolitical EU?”
Striking the right balance: reinforcing Europe’s arsenal of trade defence instruments (TDIs)
By Robin Vandendriessche In December 2021, the European Union (EU), in an attempt to increase its geopolitical theft, proposed a new policy instrument that would allow it to impose sanctions more easily on economic rivals such as China. The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) came after years of perceived European vulnerability to economic blackmail as third countriesContinue reading “Striking the right balance: reinforcing Europe’s arsenal of trade defence instruments (TDIs)“
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