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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

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

Afghanistan lived up for her name, again

August 15, 2021 will walk into history as the day of the US joining an illustrious, or from another point of view, infamous group....

Christopher Tapp
Aug 24, 2021 4 min read

G7 back in person, finally … so what?

The Cabris Bay G7 Summit Communiqué is lengthy. About 13960 words from start to finish, excluding the title at the beginning and the usual...

Leslie Zelinka
Jun 24, 2021 2 min read

European strategic independence – a few thoughts on capabilities

It was not President Trump’s doing. His sometimes hectic and other times unorthodox foreign policy only forced European leaders to say it out loud:...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 18, 2021 2 min read

Happily divorced … now what?

After a lot of theatrics, that included among others then-European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker greeting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with a not-so diplomatic...

Christopher Tapp
May 29, 2021 3 min read

RIP the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment?

Less than 3 months after the two sides agreed on a political deal, things took a turn to the worse. Within a few days...

Leslie Zelinka
Mar 29, 2021 3 min read

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