Top Stories – Page 4

Is something rotten in the Netherlands….

Though I’m not a great believer of „national characteristics”, a.k.a. stereotypes, e.g. that every Scotsman is miserly and every American is brash, but I...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 13, 2021 3 min read

Why the EU should maybe reconsider its attitude towards…

As the fourth (third? fifth?) wave of COVID hit Europe and as all eyes were fixed on Glasgow, a little tit-for-tat in Brussel was...

Marta Loeb
Nov 19, 2021 5 min read

Who will pay for the gas bill?

One has to wonder why the recent spike of energy prices caught the leaders of Europe completely off guard. Josep Borrell said that sharp...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 9, 2021 3 min read

Do the next right thing…

It has a fancy name, called Euroscepticism. Itis present in each and every member state. (Even more so in the one that took it...

Christopher Tapp
Oct 25, 2021 3 min read

The boring realities of rule of law debates

The last few days saw a lot of events. Starting with yet another set of leaked offshore documents, this time called Pandora Papers. The...

Marta Loeb
Oct 16, 2021 4 min read

New job opening in Germany: Negotiator-in-Chief

It’s still too early to name the next chancellor of Germany (or is it not? – given the chaos inside the CDU/CSU leadership), but,...

Marta Loeb
Oct 12, 2021 3 min read

US sanctions to tackle systemic corruption in Bulgaria

For understandable reasons, the sanctions introduced against Bulgaria under the Global Magnitsky Act got far less attention than the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, COVID...

Leslie Zelinka
Sep 23, 2021 3 min read

German elections

As the world held its breath and watched as the new realm of the Taliban unfolds in Afghanistan or as the President of United...

Marta Loeb
Sep 10, 2021 3 min read

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