OBJECTIVO – Page 14

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

European House of Cards

The episodes of the coming months in European politics promise to be no less exciting than those seen in...

Christopher Tapp
Jan 30, 2024 3 min read

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Is something rotten in the Netherlands….

Though I’m not a great believer of „national characteristics”, a.k.a. stereotypes, e.g. that every Scotsman is miserly and every American is brash, but I...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 13, 2021 3 min read

Ready, steady, go – the Traffic Light Coalition is…

What to expect from the new German government It is not final yet, as it needs to be approved by the parties themselves, but...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 8, 2021 4 min read

A few thoughts on the COP26 conference

In spite of the few moments, when it seemed that it won’t happen, the end of the COP26 conference saw the birth of the...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 1, 2021 2 min read

Why the EU should maybe reconsider its attitude towards…

As the fourth (third? fifth?) wave of COVID hit Europe and as all eyes were fixed on Glasgow, a little tit-for-tat in Brussel was...

Marta Loeb
Nov 19, 2021 5 min read

Who will pay for the gas bill?

One has to wonder why the recent spike of energy prices caught the leaders of Europe completely off guard. Josep Borrell said that sharp...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 9, 2021 3 min read

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

WAR. AT. ANY. PRICE. Looking back over the past two months, a definite increase of voices in the EU arguing for a more direct involvement in the war in Ukraine, in order to achieve a Ukrainian victory and,... Read More

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