OBJECTIVO – Page 8

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 EU Commission Easing On GDPR: What About Our…

During the drafting process of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, which took effect in 2018, the proposal drew a...

Christopher Tapp
May 4, 2025 3 min read

Meloni’s Solo Act in Europe’s Trade Drama

If you’ve been wondering where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been while President Trump unleashed a tariff tantrum threatening to kneecap...

Arrigo Mazzi
May 2, 2025 3 min read

The EU Commission’s biased system of likes and dislikes…

What determines whether a Member State’s decision on migration is welcomed or rejected by Brussels? Depending on the subjective preferences of the key decision-makers,...

Ana Richter
Apr 28, 2025 5 min read

The EU Bureaucracy Showcased its Talents

Nobody has ever claimed that the EU was a lean, efficient and streamlined machine working with the speed of light – except for the...

Arrigo Mazzi
Apr 23, 2025 2 min read

China’s Financial Fortress

You can answer in two ways to Washington’s rather stormy and unpredictable ‘Trumponomics’. (Well, technically, you can answer with loads of subtle variations, but...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 19, 2025 2 min read

Trump’s cat-and-mouse game with the EU

As US President Donald Trump’s newly imposed tariffs caused a market chaos which reached every corner of global finance and economy, he seemed unaffected...

Ana Richter
Apr 15, 2025 4 min read

EU recommendations against high inflation and rising costs of…

Despite the fact that the latest Eurobarometer survey shows that European citizens are far more concerned about the steep rise in the costs of...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 11, 2025 4 min read

Europe’s Bold Stand for Independence: Using American AI to…

Because nothing screams ‘strategic autonomy’ like a bureaucratic middle finger to democratic oversight written by a foreign AI model. Recently, the European Commission positioned...

Ana Richter
Apr 9, 2025 2 min read