OBJECTIVO – Page 53

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

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

The Olympics postponed. What comes next?

Only three Olympic Games were cancelled since 1896. Ever. All of them (1916, 1940, 1944) because of a World War. (1940 should have been...

Christopher Tapp
Apr 8, 2020 2 min read

Three problems to solve regardless the coronavirus pandemic

Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. Anne Frank I’ve spent the last few days...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 31, 2020 3 min read

The Great Stress Test of Our Societies

The Covid-19 pandemic became the Great Stress Test of the European Union. Here in Europe, our societies have been spared from wars and bloody...

Marta Loeb
Mar 25, 2020 2 min read