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picture alliance/Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB | Hendrik Schmidt

European integration

Building an inclusive Europe

With the EU elections looming, it’s time for policy-makers to dismantle the barriers faced by millions of persons with disabilities

By Ioannis Vardakastanis, Haydn Hammersley

picture alliance/Anadolu | Narciso Contreras

Foreign and security policy

Between existence and expediency

The Ukrainian army needs new soldiers. However, the government’s radical mobilisation measures threaten to divide society

By Anastasia Magazova

picture alliance/IBL Schweden | Jorma Valkonen/IBL Bildbyrå

Economy and ecology

The price of progress?

Mining essential resources for the green transition may be key to our pursuit of a sustainable future — but not at the expense of local communities

By Lisa Pelling

picture alliance/Reuters | Marina Lystseva

Foreign and security policy

Russia’s red thread

Soviet nostalgia, revisionism and anti-Western propaganda: Putin is unwavering in his commitment to the old pillars of Russian politics

By Cord Jakobeit, Dmytro Mykhailychenko

picture alliance/Pacific Press | Simone Kuhlmey

European integration

Redefining peace

By claiming that the EU is turning into a ‘war project’ amid Russian aggression, many pro-Europeans are idealising its history as a ‘peace project’

By Hans Kundnani

picture alliance / Ikon Images/Maxim Usik | Maxim Usik

Democracy and society

Is the world getting out of control?

The EU won’t regain its sex appeal through patronising speeches and paternalistic funds. The best way to promote democracy is to act by example

By Jan Zielonka

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Zurab Tsertsvadze

European integration

A trailblazer on the wrong track

Is Georgia's leadership risking a break with Europe - and its own people?

By Marcel Röthig

picture-alliance/ dpa | Dirk Waem

European integration

'Perhaps there would be no war today'

Former EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen on the EU's eastward enlargement, mistakes and a possible accession of Ukraine

By Günter Verheugen

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European integration

Towards fair European economies

A revision of the EU’s public procurement framework is needed to reflect the interests of the citizens not companies that undermine European policies

By Dennis Radtke, Agnes Jongerius, Sara Matthieu, Nikolaj Villumsen

picture alliance / imageBROKER | Firn

Democracy and society

The Berlin Blob

German foreign policy elites reject the idea that they are cut off from the public — making the danger of groupthink acute

By Hans Kundnani