OBJECTIVO – Page 23

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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Failure of the Swedish model

Sweden has been trying to hide the consequences of its disastrous COVID-19 response for too long. The country’s strategy is a clear failure; Sweden...

Leslie Zelinka
May 28, 2020 4 min read

A New Crisis in the Making

Maltese authorities and FRONTEX have warned that the Central Mediterranean route saw a 438 percent jump in terms of illegal migration in the first...

Christopher Tapp
May 24, 2020 3 min read

The COVID-19 and the environment

The favorite closing scene of every pro-environmentalist blockbuster (think The Day After Tomorrow) is the self-healing of Mother Earth. A giant shockwave or a...

Marta Loeb
May 18, 2020 4 min read

What to expect from the upcoming German presidency?

The Croatian presidency of the EU has been, is and will be dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. No wonder that not much of the...

Marta Loeb
May 11, 2020 2 min read

Power struggles on both sides of the Atlantic

There are valuable lessons to be learned during this pandemic on cooperation, coordination and preparedness, or even on how to phase out emergency measures....

Christopher Tapp
May 8, 2020 4 min read

Desperate times call for desperate measures

I have to admit, I am a huge fan of Tom Clancy, RIP. Jack Ryan is the perfect patriotic hero, the earlier version of...

Marta Loeb
May 6, 2020 4 min read

Entering the guessing game: predictions about the future of…

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker Celebrating the first digital/virtual Easter ever in silence...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 27, 2020 3 min read

Still time to learn from our 2009 mistakes –…

It’s not a big surprise that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen heavily criticized the lack of solidarity between member states during the...

Marta Loeb
Apr 20, 2020 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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