Month: March 2014

Written by DEAN CARROLL Friday, 21 October 2011 08:15 Many are holding their breath in anticipation that the eurozone summit on Sunday will result in an all-dancing, all-singing solution to...

Written by GJORGJI STAMOV Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:39 The Republic of Macedonia pursued a policy of peaceful independence from war-ravaged Yugoslavia in 1991. Considering the devastating outcome of that...

By FRANCESCO GUARASCIO | 03.10.2011 European Commission President José Manuel Barroso waited until nearly the middle of his second mandate to show bold ambitions for the European project, but his...

BY GEZIM VISOKA** | 17.08.2011 Introduction Even after ten years of international administration and almost three years since its declaration of independence from Serbia, Kosovo continues to face ethnic and...

By Dr Chris Allen** | 31.07.2011 “As news began to break about the atrocities committed in Oslo and Utøya on 22 July, a number of media outlets began to suggest...

BY ASSOC. PROF. GÖKHAN BACIK** | 26.07.2011 Norwegian academic Bernt Hagtvet, in an article titled “Right-wing extremism in Europe,” warned: “A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of nationalism,...

By KARLO BASTA* | 30.06.2011   To a number of Western observers, last month’s arrest of Ratko Mladic brings to an end the long drawn out implosion of the former...

BY DIMITRIS RAPIDIS** | 08.06.2011 Regional strategic cooperation has the exceptional advantage of bringing together states and policy makers that share common concerns, ponder upon same risks and challenges, and...

By DEAN CARROLL | 08.05.2011 In April, Europol's annual European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report detailed how fundamentalist groups are deepening links with organised crime and developing ever more...

By DMITRY DANILOV The idea of a legally binding European Security Treaty (EST), voiced by Dmitry  Medvedev in June 2008 in Berlin  during his first European visit as the President...

BY DR. OLIVER DADDOW | 20.04.2011 Despite promising to lance the boil on Europe, New Labour instead pursued "red lines" and Eurosceptic-friendly rhetoric – says Dr Oliver Daddow The lasting images...

By Aidan Stradling | 24.03.2011 Listing the members of the British royal family and aristocracy is a good way to discover England’s regions. The likes of Wessex, Cornwall and York, Kent,...

By Salwa Al Khatib 19 January 2011   Following September 11th 2001 the US and European Countries began making a prominent issue of the Muslims living in the West. Islam...

By George Friedman 12 December 2010 Editor's note: This is the seventh installment in a series of special reports that Dr. Friedman is writing as he travels to Turkey, Moldova,...

By George Friedman 12 December 2010   Editor's note: This is the sixth installment in a series of special reports that Dr. Friedman will write over the next few weeks...