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Foreign and security policy

Cold reality check

While Europe stays delulu, Russia is dictating the terms

By Almut Rochowanski

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Democracy and society

First to respond, last in line

Excluding Nigerian responders from key decisions doesn’t just ignore local knowledge — it entrenches a model of aid built far from the crisis

By Taofik Oyewo Hussain

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European integration

Stitching laws with golden thread

It is not political opposition from Brussels that risks delaying Ukraine’s accession, but bureaucratic inertia within its own institutions

By Oleksandr Iakymenko

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Foreign and security policy

The death of EU values in Gaza

The time for hand-wringing and empty declarations is over. The EU has ample tools at its disposal to pressure Israel to end its brutal war in Gaza

By Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff

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Democracy and society

Where is the global resistance to Trump?

Trump’s frontal assault on the world economy was an invitation for the rest of the world to come up a with a new order. But few rose to the challenge

By Dani Rodrik

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Work and digitalisation

End goal: total ctrl

Moscow’s slow log-out of free speech is less a shutdown than a full system rewrite

By Roland Bathon

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Foreign and security policy

Not quite a wonderful world

Genuine peace or not, the South Caucasus is likely to change permanently after this day — whether it will last is questionable

By Marcel Röthig

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Interviews

‘Alaska signals shift towards rehabilitating US-Russia relations’

The upcoming Trump-Putin meeting could reset relations between the two powers. Balázs Jarábik on Ukraine ceasefire talks and territorial ‘swaps’