OBJECTIVO – Page 38

The EU’s pivot towards Asia opens up the possibility of a U-turn towards China

In efforts to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs, EU Commission President has come up with the idea of building a...

Ana Richter
Jul 7, 2025 5 min read

The issue of responsibility in the lack of results in the Ukrainian peace process

Despite Turkish officials said that talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia were ’more positive than expected,’ both suffering...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 2, 2025 7 min read

Madam Transparency and Her Invisible Texts

In Brussels, irony is practically a member state. Yet, Ursula von der Leyen has achieved something of a miracle:...

Arrigo Mazzi
May 20, 2025 2 min read

Trump’s Pressure Cooker Diplomacy

It happened again. Just when pundits and diplomats had confidently declared Donald Trump’s signature tactics dead on arrival, the...

Arrigo Mazzi
May 14, 2025 3 min read

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G20 reflections

17th century England saw the birth of the so called Inclosure Acts (sic). That meant the enclosure of open fields and previously common land,...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 4, 2021 4 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

A few thoughts on the Bled Strategic Forum

Europe’s leading politicians, political analysts and many other interested from the various layers of civil society had a chance to meet in person and...

Christopher Tapp
Sep 16, 2021 2 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

A new crisis in the making?

According to one estimate of the UNHCR, about 550,000 people were forced to leave their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year....

Leslie Zelinka
Sep 4, 2021 4 min read