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Daring to say it out loud …

The age-old adage says that the boss is always right. Then, Rule #2 says that if the boss is...

Leslie Zelinka
Apr 23, 2024 3 min read

WAR. AT. ANY. PRICE.

Looking back over the past two months, a definite increase of voices in the EU arguing for a more...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 17, 2024 6 min read

Europeans vs Informational Warfare 0:1

One would be excused to think that, given the sheer number of surveillance scandals and data leaks during the...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 15, 2024 3 min read

Polish ’Agro-Transformers’ against Ukrainian grain and, Polish PM Tusk?

’Those tractors are actually Transformers, aren’t they?’ To our family’s general amusement, my 5-year old son asked me this...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 7, 2024 4 min read

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To China or not to China, that is the…

In the previous part I dwelled into the EU-China trade relations, providing some background and trying to draw attention to the fact that every...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 18, 2020 8 min read

To China or not to China, that is the…

Now, that COVID-19 occupies only about half of the front page, the EU has finally time to focus on a very Hamletian dilemma: To...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 8, 2020 6 min read

The EU is in a time loop, sort of…

In the well-known 1993 American comedy, Groundhog Day, the protagonist, a TV news anchor, is sent to Punxsutawney to cover the annual Groundhog Day...

Marta Loeb
Jun 5, 2020 4 min read

Failure of the Swedish model

Sweden has been trying to hide the consequences of its disastrous COVID-19 response for too long. The country’s strategy is a clear failure; Sweden...

Leslie Zelinka
May 28, 2020 4 min read

A New Crisis in the Making

Maltese authorities and FRONTEX have warned that the Central Mediterranean route saw a 438 percent jump in terms of illegal migration in the first...

Christopher Tapp
May 24, 2020 3 min read

The COVID-19 and the environment

The favorite closing scene of every pro-environmentalist blockbuster (think The Day After Tomorrow) is the self-healing of Mother Earth. A giant shockwave or a...

Marta Loeb
May 18, 2020 4 min read

What to expect from the upcoming German presidency?

The Croatian presidency of the EU has been, is and will be dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. No wonder that not much of the...

Marta Loeb
May 11, 2020 2 min read

Power struggles on both sides of the Atlantic

There are valuable lessons to be learned during this pandemic on cooperation, coordination and preparedness, or even on how to phase out emergency measures....

Christopher Tapp
May 8, 2020 4 min read

Green, Greener, Greenest … or not In the year 1789, something new and inspiring began. On July 14, the Bastille, the notorious prison in the outskirts of Paris was stormed by the angry crowd, signaling the beginning of the end... Read More

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