OBJECTIVO – Page 5

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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The European Parliament needs a rule of law lesson,…

For the last few weeks, MEPs and foreign ministers have repeatedly expressed their “discomfort” at the looming Hungarian and Polish EU presidencies. As Hungary’s...

Marta Loeb
Jun 8, 2023 3 min read

A solution for Ukraine’s grain exports … for now

For more than a year, Ukraine enjoyed the unwavering support of the EU, as a whole. For many months, its European allies delivered weapons,...

Marta Loeb
May 31, 2023 3 min read

Yuan vs Dollar 0.5 : 0

For a while, China has been trying to challenge the global dominance of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, a position it...

Christopher Tapp
May 17, 2023 2 min read

Macron reloaded

For the last week, media was loud from rebuttals and angry outburst about the very latest interview given by President Macron, aboard the French...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 24, 2023 2 min read

Pentagon leaks – key takeaways

The so-called “Pentagon Leaks” have rattled Washington and left the U.S. in a hurried scramble to do damage control. The Pentagon had to confirm...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 20, 2023 3 min read

Another win for China

In the time when German Christian Democrats are reconsidering their long-term pragmatic approach to China, Russia decided to take yet another step towards Beijing....

Marta Loeb
Apr 12, 2023 3 min read

Takeaways from the Putin – Xi meeting

It might have been a “bro fest celebrating authoritarian power”, as it was said by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore). Or it might have been...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 3, 2023 2 min read

The ‘Nord Stream-investigation’ tragicomedy goes on

There is a scene in the 1997 American political satire Wag the Dog, when the two main protagonists, Conrad Brean and Stanley Motss have...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 23, 2023 3 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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