OBJECTIVO – Page 47

The EU’s pivot towards Asia opens up the possibility of a U-turn towards China

In efforts to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs, EU Commission President has come up with the idea of building a...

Ana Richter
Jul 7, 2025 5 min read

The issue of responsibility in the lack of results in the Ukrainian peace process

Despite Turkish officials said that talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia were ’more positive than expected,’ both suffering...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 2, 2025 7 min read

Madam Transparency and Her Invisible Texts

In Brussels, irony is practically a member state. Yet, Ursula von der Leyen has achieved something of a miracle:...

Arrigo Mazzi
May 20, 2025 2 min read

Trump’s Pressure Cooker Diplomacy

It happened again. Just when pundits and diplomats had confidently declared Donald Trump’s signature tactics dead on arrival, the...

Arrigo Mazzi
May 14, 2025 3 min read

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The Gaia-X platform launched

First of all Chaos came into being. But then Gaia broad-chested, always the unshakable seat of all the immortals who hold the peaks of...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 22, 2020 4 min read

To China or not to China, that is the…

In the previous part I dwelled into the EU-China trade relations, providing some background and trying to draw attention to the fact that every...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 18, 2020 8 min read

To China or not to China, that is the…

Now, that COVID-19 occupies only about half of the front page, the EU has finally time to focus on a very Hamletian dilemma: To...

Christopher Tapp
Jun 8, 2020 6 min read

The EU is in a time loop, sort of…

In the well-known 1993 American comedy, Groundhog Day, the protagonist, a TV news anchor, is sent to Punxsutawney to cover the annual Groundhog Day...

Marta Loeb
Jun 5, 2020 4 min read

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