Europe today is increasingly governed by politicians of a different historical type. To borrow a biblical image, they are “neither cold nor hot.” They are competent managers of an already constructed order, yet they often lac...
If the EU is prepared to examine political ties with Russia, it must apply the same level of scrutiny to economic relationships, which form the real foundation of any political engagement.
I have called on the Committee to continue its examination until a clear, verifiable, and legally substantiated response is provided by the European Commission
Draghi validates Trump's argument that Europe’s welfare model has been financed, in part, by a geopolitical architecture provided by the United States.
The contrast between the Russia–Ukraine war and the US–Iran confrontation exposes a core inconsistency in Europe’s response: strong in words, absent in action.
Europe has long been capable of describing its problems. What it struggles with is answering a far more difficult question: what vision of the future it is prepared to offer—to the world and to itself.
Sanctions that were intended to exert pressure are, in practice, creating exceptional operating conditions for Raiffeisen. As a result, sanctions policy is effectively being transformed into a mechanism for redistributing mar...
The hearing confirmed that this is not an isolated case, but a systemic problem — a crisis of trust in the EU’s sanctions policy and in the principle of equal application of the law.
