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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

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

Qatargate keeps the EP busy

Qatargate has not rocked the very fundaments of the EU (in fact the European Commission and the European Council have already declared that the...

Christopher Tapp
Feb 3, 2023 2 min read

Is 2015 about to repeat itself?

The shocking pictures of the drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi will probably haunt for forever whoever had seen them back in 2015. For many,...

Marta Loeb
Nov 9, 2022 2 min read

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