OBJECTIVO – Page 16

A slap across the face of the West?

The West, led by President Biden and the leaders of Europe have been arguing for months for an increase...

Christopher Tapp
Oct 11, 2022 3 min read

A few takeaways from the SOTEU 2022

Just as it was expected, there was nothing particularly ground-shaking in the fifty-something minute long address of European Commission...

Leslie Zelinka
Sep 15, 2022 4 min read

Countdown to the SOTEU 2022

In a few days, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will once again stand behind the lectern bearing...

Leslie Zelinka
Sep 11, 2022 5 min read

Russia’s new-old friends

In time of need, Russia used the July 19 Tehran meeting to reach out to some partners, both old...

Marta Loeb
Jul 26, 2022 4 min read

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Preparing for the Biden Presidency

Now, when Donald Trump almost acknowledged his loss, a quick and quite spectacular scramble has begun to gain the ears and eyes of President-Elect...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 11, 2020 3 min read

Environment vs children, really?

It’s happened a few weeks ago but it was lost in the chaos of COVID restrictions and the renewed battle around MFF. Most of...

Leslie Zelinka
Dec 3, 2020 2 min read

A not-so-unexpected twist in the MFF saga

The trenches are dug and the dice are cast. This could be the short summary of the latest development of the EU MFF/Recovery Fund...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 27, 2020 3 min read

The War of Maps

The way we visualize or describe a thing will determine our thinking about the thing itself in the long term. That’s why aspiring journalists...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 16, 2020 3 min read

First there were the Black Swans, now you have…

Every aspiring IR student knows that there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Or that there are low probability/high impact scenarios. Or...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 7, 2020 5 min read

The future US – UK special relations looks blurry

The latest round of negotiations ended, quite predictably, with no result. And with the EU ruling out the possibility of a special Brexit summit...

Leslie Zelinka
Oct 28, 2020 3 min read

Rough weeks in France

16 October, 2020. Samuel Paty, a history teacher was beheaded in a Parisian suburb in what President Emmanuel Macron has called an “Islamist terrorist...

Christopher Tapp
Oct 23, 2020 7 min read

Trump vs Biden, first round

I wrote this article before the big COVID-19 chaos took over the White House, thought for days about rewriting it, but, in the end,...

Christopher Tapp
Oct 9, 2020 4 min read

Orbanism on the rise? – Should Europe be afraid of a Fico government in Slovakia? Late September early elections are coming in Slovakia. A few weeks before voters go to the polling stations former PM Robert Fico’s Smer party is currently ahead in the polls. When the campaign is... Read More

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