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"The varnish is peeling off for Sebastian Kurz". That was the title of my comment in New Europe about the Austrian Chancellor in April....

Orca, the largest direct air capture and storage facility to date, recently commenced operations in Iceland and is expected to suck some 4000 tons...

Facebook’s former employee Frances Haugen, in an interview on “60 Minutes,” explained to host Scott Pelley that the social media giant has conducted internal experiments that demonstrate just...

One of the first announcements the Taliban made after seizing power in Afghanistan in August was that they were going to “ban the production and sale...

Following China’s recent banning of cryptocurrency usage last week, the nexus of sovereign adoption and digital assets has reemerged as an important question in...

Events are moving quite quickly in the South Caucasus, although they have not yet reached a breakthrough. Nevertheless, the first anniversary of the outbreak...

It is almost inconceivable to imagine a geographical space as vast and as diverse as what we call the Indo-Pacific region.Imagine an area from...

Since 2020, the United States has been working to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. The Americans' announcement emboldened the Taliban, who recently took control...

In Europe today, suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people. Boys aged 10 to 19 die by suicide at more...

Offshore wind power has been around for a while now – 30 years to be exact. The first offshore wind farm was installed off...

The current health and economic crisis has taken a severe toll on gender equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) across the...

Though it is hard to say, the recent election in Canada was a waste of money. After the expenditure of over $600 million (CDN),...

When rumors first began to swirl in January about the possible appointment of Christian Schmidt as Europe's High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, I...

On September 16, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for the boycott of Expo Dubai 2020. It also called for European companies dealing...

In the nearly nine months since he took office, it has become apparent that the US and European Union will not immediately experience a...

The New Nuclear Watch Institute (NNWI) has published the August edition of their ‘Yes to Nuclear’ Perspectives initiative. Previous month we looked at the...

The 2020s were lean years in New York, as elsewhere. But the city’s 2022 lawsuit against the Big Five—Chevron, BP, Shell, Exxon, and ConocoPhillips—picked...

The European Union is a historical peace project. It has created prosperity and welfare for many citizens and countries. Together, since its founding, we...

Twenty years have now passed since 9/11. Since then, differing ideas of the importance of democracy in Middle Eastern policy have dominated the foreign...

The concept of soft power was articulated in the 1990s by the American scientist Joseph Nye. In his work, he talks about the ability...

Germany's different state, regional and local administrations continue to harass, discriminate and justify the unequal treatment of members of a minority religion despite the...

The recent election of Ebrahim Raisi as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran has sent shockwaves through the country's LGBTQ community, with many...

The Black Sea region has a huge energy potential, both on-shore and off-shore, in terms of natural gas proved reserves and renewable energy. Located...

Problem gambling is an issue that affects people all over the world, with an increase in leisure time during the Covid-19 pandemic thought to...

“Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope,” said Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg...

Amid continuing regional and global challenges, the foreign ministers of Greece, Israel and Cyprus met on August 22 in Jerusalem and discussed enhancing their...

With the Coronavirus pandemic and the rapidly changing great power competition outside as well as within the European Union, the tectonic plates of political...

Images of Afghan refugees scrambling to escape Kabul following the Taliban’s seizure of power will haunt the international community for decades. According to the...

The European Union has for years invested its diplomatic efforts, as well as millions of Euros, into bringing a sense of security to Libya,...

After the popular unrest against the rigged elections in Belarus in August 2020, the number of refugees, including political asylum seekers, increased significantly. Belarusians...

A serious conflict has broken out between Poland and Israel. Last weekend, Poland's President Andrzej Duda signed a new law that makes it more...

Recently, the news emerged that the EU Commission had proposed a new framework for the introduction of European Digital Identity. This framework proposal represents...

2019 started so promisingly. Reducing the EU’s administrative and regulatory burden would become one of the main priorities of the new European Commission, its...

Granting Autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2019 not only had a strong impact on Ukrainian society's rethinking of traditional religious symbols -...

As each day goes by, the Taliban’s forces edge closer to controlling all of Afghanistan. In the first week of August, the Taliban swept...

July’s instalment of the New Nuclear Watch Institute’s ‘Yes to Nuclear’ Perspectives initiative turns to look at the capacity of nuclear energy to improve...

In a grim report released on August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change was “unequivocally” caused by human activity, and...

It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of...

“If there were a moral to be drawn from the Crimean War which might apply to the present it would be this: in a...

The coronavirus pandemic is resurging around the world once more, driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19. Yet, athletic teams and players...

Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, is haunting the Narendra Modi-led Indian government once again. Seventeen media organizations including the Wire, the Washington Post and the Guardian have...

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has expressed 'great concern; over reports that sophisticated spy software was used worldwide against journalists and politicians,...

The devastating floods in Western Europe highlight the serious weather extremes that are now affecting many parts of the world. Until recently, it was...

The development of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has afforded more pregnant women the chance to find out valuable health information. But access to NIPT...

Countries are lining up to declare they will not attend the20th anniversary of the UN’s notorious 2001 World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban,...

“Fit for 2030” or “Fit for 55” - the European Commission's new “Climate Target Plan 2030” has already had many names. What is much...

Home is where the heart is. Since fighting in the Donbass erupted back in 2014, the residents of Mariupol have had trouble getting home,...

America is on fire, literally. Wildfires are currently raging across a number of US states. Thousands of residents are evacuating their homes as smoke...

Middle Eastern experts have commented widely on the “new” foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates. Many of these same commentators have gone so...

For an EU Commission that began with a grand statement of ‘geopolitical’ ambitions, the foreign policy strategy under Ursula von der Leyen and Josep...