OBJECTIVO – Page 5

Ukraine’s War Can’t Hide Its Corruption Fault Lines

When President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Servant of the People faction abruptly moved in July 2025 to weaken Ukraine’s...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 19, 2025 2 min read

How does an economic and social crisis in Germany trigger a broader European crisis

Speaking at a conference of his centre-right CDU party on 23 August, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that the...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 13, 2025 4 min read

The Power of Negotiations

The freshly signed peace deal might or might not herald a true “historic dawn of a new Middle East”...

Ana Richter
Oct 29, 2025 2 min read

Key Takeaways from the Portuguese Elections

Portugal held local elections on October 12, 2025. The surprise results delivered a stinging rebuke to the far-right hopefuls....

Arrigo Mazzi
Oct 18, 2025 2 min read

All Stories

The Next Wave: A tale of delusions and conspiracy…

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee. (Herman Melville: Moby-Dick) From many points of views, the authors of...

Arrigo Mazzi
Jul 18, 2025 3 min read

A Costly Miscalculation: Migration

The European Commission’s 2025 Annual Report on Taxation paints a dire picture of Europe’s fiscal health. Declining revenues, unsustainable labor tax dependence, and a...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 15, 2025 3 min read

Better to forget a merit-based EU enlargement?

Enlargement of the European Union, which used to be the result of a merit and value based procedure, no longer exists. This is the...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 11, 2025 4 min read

The EU’s pivot towards Asia opens up the possibility…

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

Ana Richter
Jul 7, 2025 5 min read

NATO’s Budget Rebel: Spain

At the June 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, the former (and in that position very frugal) Dutch Prime Minister, currently NATO Secretary General...

Arrigo Mazzi
Jul 4, 2025 2 min read

One of the EU’s biggest success stories or, the…

40 years of Schengen When this April the EU celebrated the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Schengen Agreement on free movement, there...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 1, 2025 3 min read

The erosion of democracy in Greece should be a…

Given the shameful developments in Greek domestic politics in recent years, it looks as if European democracy was shot in the heart right there...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 27, 2025 5 min read

Ukrainian medicines without borders: is this really what the…

As an important step on Ukraine’s integration path, five agreements were signed on 9 April 2025, on the 10th meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 26, 2025 5 min read