Meloni and her allies cannot deny the pressing need for a united Europe today, yet, they cannot appear overtly pro-European ...

Dr Patrick Rosenow is editor-in-chief of the magazine Vereinte Nationen, published by the United Nations Association of Germany (UNA-Germany, DGVN). His work focuses on the United Nations, ...

Kirsten Hartmann is a policy officer in the Europe and International Politics programme at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung. She studied international relations and peace studies in Erfurt, ...

There has therefore been a gap between ambition and reality for a long time now. This contradiction is also evident in the ...

Marlies Murray is the Programme and Communications Officer at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Washington, D.C. She previously served at Aspen Institute Germany where she was responsible for the ...

Twenty years ago, ten Eastern European countries, amongst them the Baltic states, but also Poland and Hungary, joined the European Union as part of the enlargement to the East. In the past, you have ...

In recent years, President Erdogan has galvanised anti-Western sentiment in Turkey. Now, he’s changed course — but the public is reluctant to follow Reuters Turkish President Erdogan speaks in front ...

Michele LeVoy is the Director of PICUM, a network of organisations working to ensure social justice and human rights for undocumented migrants. Cracking down on smugglers doesn’t make migration safer, ...

A shift in the demands and objectives of the human rights project has led activists to adopt a sanctimonious tone — fuelling the anti-rights backlash picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Nikolas ...

Tina Blohm heads the offices of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Istanbul and Ankara. She previously worked for the FES in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bangladesh as well as for the UN, the Afghan ...