OBJECTIVO – Page 4

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

When Quoting the Scripture Becomes a Courtroom Drama

Some stories seem ripped from satire, but are, unfortunately, very real. This far Finland was mostly known as the home of saunas, silence, world-class...

Arrigo Mazzi
Nov 27, 2025 4 min read

Is Merz Playing From the AfD’s Books?

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz finally did what few German politicians (and no chancellors) dared to do for ten years. He declared that Syrians no...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 25, 2025 2 min read

From techical body into political actor: Ursula von ever?

If European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen continues to concentrate power in her hands, she is unlikely to maintain neither the support of...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 22, 2025 3 min read

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 independent anti-corruption agencies, the backlash...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 19, 2025 2 min read

The Grand Tariff Truce That Wasn’t

A supposed diplomatic masterstroke of late 2025 saw Donald Trump and Xi Jinping “agree” to claw back some of their own trade-war excesses, for...

Arrigo Mazzi
Nov 15, 2025 2 min read

How does an economic and social crisis in Germany…

Speaking at a conference of his centre-right CDU party on 23 August, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that the German welfare system in its...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 13, 2025 4 min read

Merz and immigration

One had to be completely oblivious of the new German reality to be surprised by the results of the latest Civey survey. According to...

Ana Richter
Nov 11, 2025 2 min read

Dutch Elections 2025: Nothing Out of the Ordinary?

The results are in, the celebratory parties are over (if there were at all) and the dust is settling. The next few weeks will...

Christopher Tapp
Nov 9, 2025 2 min read