OBJECTIVO – Page 25

What about our right to receive unbiased reporting on Ukraine?

While the number of reports, analyses, investigative materials and commentaries on Ukraine including its EU membership bid, as well...

Christopher Tapp
Feb 23, 2026 4 min read

Following Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela, would the EU impose sanctions on the US?

Given the EU’s nineteen sanction packages imposed on Russia in response to Moscow’s ’military operation’, i.e. full-scale war against...

Arrigo Mazzi
Jan 13, 2026 3 min read

Billions to Ukraine: Yes. Implementing the Draghi Report: No.

On September 9 2024, former ECB President Mario Draghi published a landmark report. A document of approximately 400 pages,...

Christopher Tapp
Jan 10, 2026 2 min read

With the Pact for the Mediterranean, the EU opened a door to migration while degrading entire Erasmus generations in Europe

While the EU-Middle East and North Africa (MENA) pact undoubtably has real political advantages, its long-term migratory effect also...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 22, 2025 3 min read

All Stories

Hoping to recoup is what ruins the gambler

The Irish proverb, hoping to recoup is what ruins the gambler, proved once again true on the weekend. President Macron’s reckless gamble not only...

Ana Richter
Jul 22, 2024 2 min read

Lessons on democracy, European Parliament-style

Sitting in a Viennese hotel, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, former Austrian Minister of Interior Herbert Kickl and...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 20, 2024 3 min read

Reinventing the Wheel(ie Bin)

As we often feel a somewhat wicked sense of relief when it turns out that the grass is not always greener in the neighbor’s...

Ana Richter
Jul 18, 2024 4 min read

In liberal democracies, disagreement with mainstream is no longer…

What has led to the return of assassinations to politics, both in Europe and in America? Is it the deterioration of political discourse, the...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 16, 2024 4 min read

The good vs the bad narrative in the American…

Barely a week ago, amidst a heat wave hitting most of Europe and a heated election campaign hitting the U.S., Reuters published a strongly...

Arrigo Mazzi
Jul 13, 2024 3 min read

EU’s New Foreign Policy Chief Is Eager To Jump…

When Putin’s authorities dismissed a warrant for her arrest in February, Estonian PM Kaja Kallas declared to the world with a defiant smile on...

Arrigo Mazzi
Jul 11, 2024 7 min read

In the meantime, elsewhere in the world

There are certain events that are, or at least seem to be, so important that they demand all our attention, leaving us blindsided to...

Ana Richter
Jul 10, 2024 5 min read

A shortlist for the top jobs – check. But…

If everything goes according to plans in the autumn, then Ursula von der Leyen will be the President of the European Commission for another...

Christopher Tapp
Jul 5, 2024 2 min read