OBJECTIVO – Page 6

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

European defence games split the EU Member States

On October 9, 2023 the European Council (EUCO) gave a green light to new rules to boost common procurement...

Christopher Tapp
Feb 26, 2024 4 min read

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Takeaways from the Putin – Xi meeting

It might have been a “bro fest celebrating authoritarian power”, as it was said by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore). Or it might have been...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 3, 2023 2 min read

The ‘Nord Stream-investigation’ tragicomedy goes on

There is a scene in the 1997 American political satire Wag the Dog, when the two main protagonists, Conrad Brean and Stanley Motss have...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 23, 2023 3 min read

The Ukrainian Stone Soup

Most of us are familiar with the folk story “Stone Soup”. The settings and the main characters may be slightly different in every country....

Christopher Tapp
Feb 17, 2023 3 min read

Key takeaways from the State of the Union Speech

Maybe with a little less fanfare than usually, but U.S. President Joe Biden has delivered his annual State of the Union speech to Congress...

Marta Loeb
Feb 13, 2023 2 min read

Qatargate keeps the EP busy

Qatargate has not rocked the very fundaments of the EU (in fact the European Commission and the European Council have already declared that the...

Christopher Tapp
Feb 3, 2023 2 min read

France and Germany on the way of reconciliation

It’s been several weeks ago that President Biden introduced his Inflation Reduction Act, as the multibillion-dollar green subsidies act got dubbed. While it was...

Marta Loeb
Jan 29, 2023 2 min read

Key takeaways from Davos

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is (finally) over. From one point of view, it was a great success: there were more...

Marta Loeb
Jan 26, 2023 3 min read

From Stockholm with love

Fireworks in Stockholm meant the beginning of the New Year and the beginning of the Swedish rotating presidency of the European Council. While, in...

Christopher Tapp
Jan 12, 2023 2 min read

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 wrong, please refer to Rule #1. The same seems to be true to politicians, too.... Read More

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