Almut Rochowanski is an activist who has been supporting civil society in the former Soviet Union for 20 years, focusing on peace work and women’s rights. The time for hand-wringing and empty ...

Dr Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff is a diplomat who has been working in the field of EU external relations since 1992. He has served as the European Union’s official representative in various locations, ...

Ukraine and Moldova Programme Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. He manages projects related to Ukraine’s legal alignment with the EU, including sector-specific reforms, and recently co ...

Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria is Executive Board member of Diplomeds, a cross-Mediterranean policy group advocating for dialogue and cooperation and facilitating back-channel talks in the region. He co-edited ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

Read this article in German. In 1990, Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen stated that ‘more than 100 million women are missing.’ What exactly did he mean by ‘missing’ here? Girls become ‘missing ...

Evgeny Antonov is a journalist and analyst based in Riga. He focuses on issues facing the Baltic States, Europe's strategic security challenges, the war in Ukraine, and the situation in Russia. He was ...

Those navigating between different realities and discourses amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza are frequently left speechless. In Germany, politics and the media ...

With climate change, geopolitical interests now compete in the Arctic for raw materials, trade routes and military bases ...

As a joint, in a bong, in a vaporizer, in cookies, brownies or gummy bears - there are many ways to consume cannabis. But they have only one thing in common: they are banned in the European Union.

Who should be responsible for emissions reductions? Carbon taxes disproportionally hit the poor — both in the Global North and South. Instead, climate policies should tackle the consumption of the ...

The United Nations representatives who took the microphone in Baghdad in early June 2023 to talk about Iraq’s current drought had little reason to be optimistic. While Germans and Central Europeans ...