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Reuters/Costas Baltas

Democracy and society

Between human rights and border control

If neither Frontex engagement nor disengagement can make migration safer, Europe may need to look at new solutions beyond its borders

By Christopher Szabla

Reuters/Johanna Geron

Democracy and society

A far-right EU?

For a long time, a far-right European Union seemed inconceivable. Today, however, things look rather different

By Hans Kundnani

Reuters/Henry Romero

Economy and ecology

Picking up the threads

The EU-CELAC Summit opens a window of opportunity for the EU and Latin America to relaunch their partnership on the road to a just energy transition

By Ignacio Urbasos

Pexels

Foreign and security policy

The American empire in the fog of Ukraine

A war that grinds without dramatic shifts poses a challenge to political judgment; the observer is tempted to make a sweeping historical judgment

By Ross Douthat

Reuters/ABACA

Foreign and security policy

A lesson in realism

One of the messages of the Vilnius Summit is that as long as the war in Ukraine continues, there will be no NATO membership

By Nickolay Kapitonenko

DPA/Picture Alliance via Reuters Connect

Interviews

‘Headlines like “the EU agrees on asylum reform” are premature’

MEP Birgit Sippel on why a compromise on the new EU asylum reform is still pending and Parliament’s upcoming difficult negotiations with the Council

Tunahan Turhan/SOPA Images/Sip via Reuters Connect

Democracy and society

Back to the future

On the threshold of the new ‘Turkish century’, the main success of the government may be a return to its roots

By Yevgeniya Gaber

Reuters/Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto

Economy and ecology

The environmental costs of Russia's war of aggression

Russia’s war against Ukraine has severely devastated the country’s local environment. Rebuilding its ecology won’t be easy – and it will take time

By Anselm Vogler