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, ...

Liechtenstein has just initiated a resolution at the United Nations that mandates a meeting of the General Assembly whenever a veto is cast in the Security Council. What’s behind this initiative? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reimagining global health Dismissing Africa as a ‘junior partner’ when it comes to shaping health policy isn’t just outdated — it’s a strategic failure with global consequences ...

Western allies are urging Ukraine to hold presidential elections. But President Zelenskyy has rejected such demands – for good reasons ...

‘Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe, and the world. You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to ...

The violence in South Africa is the result of decades of economic hardship and institutional failure. The government must abandon its austerity agenda ...

Walter Kemp is Communications Director at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Senior Strategy Advisor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He previously held senior ...

Henry Kissinger was considered one of the most influential figures in international politics — admired for his strategic foresight, criticised for his opportunistic manoeuvrability. Even his numerous ...

Since 2020, there have been six coups d'état in francophone West Africa. In all cases, the juntas succeeded in exploiting the ‘anti-French sentiment’ Reuters/Mahamadou Hamidou Niger's junta supporters ...

Reuters/Johanna Geron Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, so far, has had a much more harmonious relationship with the EU than Viktor Orbán. For a long time, a far-right European Union seemed ...