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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

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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

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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

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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

Canva

Democracy and society

Beyond wellbeing and self-care

One in four people in the EU experiences mental health issues. Though a major milestone, the EU’s new approach to mental health still lacks efficacy

By Jackie Mellese

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Foreign and security policy

A dangerous balancing act

In this week's NATO Summit in Vilnius, the member states must address Ukraine’s membership aspirations — a task which is anything but straightforward

By Aurélie Pugnet

Reuters/Bernadett Szabo

Democracy and society

Orbán’s anti-woke pretence

Hungary’s PM is portraying his country's anti-democratic shift as ‘truly conservative’. This strategy seems to resonate with Western intellectuals

By Eszter Kováts

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Democracy and society

40 years of riots and protests

As long as the process of ghettoisation continues in France, the next police blunder and the subsequent riots are just around the corner

By François Dubet

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Interviews

‘It is about building trust, and that takes a long time’

Patrik Hermansson on why people vote for the right and how giving a sense of hope and direction could counter this development

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Democracy and society

The biggest game changer in Russian politics

We don’t know what Prigozhin really intended with his mutiny. But he accidentally revived a preoccupation long thought dead in Moscow — real politics

By Alexey Yusupov