5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (801+ words) For most European civil servants, communicating with their American counterparts in the Trump era is a totally new experience – if you can call it that – compared to the past. According to a senior European official who has been in frequent…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (399+ words) The nauseating sight of the American envoy Steve Witkoff fawning on Vladimir Putin this weekend should have been a shock. Also shocking: Witkoff and his similarly unimpressive sidekick, Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, travelled in a Russian government motorcade and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (349+ words) Global temperatures are set to rise by 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and will lead to possibly permanent effects even if the damage is reversed, according to a new UN climate study. The UN environment programme’s report, published on Wednesday (2 September),…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (447+ words) Despite a track record so far of failed projects, Denmark is hosting the latest round of talks in the hopes of setting up asylum deportation centres abroad – with Rwanda and Uganda among the frontrunners. The meeting, set to take place…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1111+ words) First published in Deník N. “Those who vote for populists are often precisely the people who will ultimately suffer the most under a populist government,” Reint Gropp, an economist at the Halle Institute for Economic Research, said, explaining what the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (949+ words) The referendum held in Iceland at the weekend (29 August) has returned a fundamental question to European politics: who should have the final say when a country is considering a decision that can influence its long-term political direction? Icelanders were asked…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (579+ words) None of that happened. In fact, the US was militarily feeble and absent from European security. Britain and France appeased Hitler. Poland and Lithuania were at loggerheads. Estonia and Latvia had declared neutrality. Nobody was helping anybody. We are incomparably…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (550+ words) I’m not surprised that Iceland voted No to resuming EU accession talks, but the romance of the old man of the sea is a luxury that may soon pass its sell-by date. Icelanders have been fishing their waters for longer…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (741+ words) Imagine an EU public-service chatbot gives the eligibility rule in French but drops a condition in Romanian. If both are folded into one aggregate score, the system may appear compliant. For the citizen who receives the incomplete answer, the failure…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1022+ words) The European Union could one day expand not only eastwards, but also westwards — or, more precisely, north-westwards. Iceland is set to hold an important referendum this Saturday (29 August), in which voters will decide whether to resume negotiations on joining the…...