Austria’s unlikely coalition between the conservative Austrian People’s Party (Österreichische Volkspartei, or ÖVP) and the Greens has been formed after weeks of hard-fought negotiations. Their respective party chairs Sebastian Kurz and Werner Kogler announced that the middle of the week...
Renewable energy projects and businesses surged in the 2010s. Yet, fossil fuel energy sources remain a big player in the energy market. What will be the consequences of the EU – through the European Investment Bank (EIB) – essentially ending...
Before each NATO meeting, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sends out a letter to all member states. Prior to NATO’s summit in London this month, the letter addressed one member state in particular: France. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly criticized NATO...
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a full ceasefire by the end of 2019 in eastern Ukraine. In the recently-held so-called Normandy Format, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky endorsed Franco-German mediation of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and agreed...
It will be Europe’s “man on the moon moment,” proclaimed the continent’s top politician earlier this month. A bold climate-correcting policy that puts environmentalism at the very heart of the bloc’s future. From the buildings we inhabit, the vehicles we...
You could forgive the French for feeling less than festive this holiday season. For almost a month now, railway workers have been on strike, bringing the nation’s transport network to a grinding halt. The protesters’ fury is focused on President...
The Trump administration had repeatedly telegraphed its opposition to expansion of the Nord Stream pipeline network which was opened in 2011 as a Russo-German initiative, with involvement of French and Dutch firms. The Nord Stream 2 extension of the pipeline...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ready to engage in top-level conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin again. “If the framework is right, I will meet with President Putin,” Stoltenberg said in an interview just days prior to...
The Cold War may be long over but when the leaders of NATO member states gathered in London on December 3 and 4, the environment was no less cold. Instead of a bipolar world of the Soviet Union versus the...
Pope Francis recently marked the Catholic Church’s shift into a less Western-centered approach to the world by announcing a groundbreaking decision: to support what he renamed the “outskirts of the world”, namely the emerging powers of the Global South, in...