Eurasia

Huge crowds took to the streets of the capital Sofia and other major cities on Monday night to protest against the governing coalition of centre-right populists GERB, the pro-Russia Bulgarian Socialist Party and nationalist party There’s Such a People, backed by tycoon Delyan Peevski’s New Beginning. The protests were some …

Even before prime ministerial hopeful Andrej Babis submitted his proposed ministers to the president for approval on November 26, the coalition that the populist billionaire had put together following the October general election was already triggering street protests and prompting worries within Czech civil society. When the division of ministries …

In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. Those who think that Hamas, by agreeing to Trump’s “peace plan,” has abandoned its desire to eliminate …

Introduction To deter and win future wars, America must be able to seize the initiative against any actor it may need to fight. Wars are rarely won through reactive approaches. Russia is on a trajectory toward protracting and expanding the current war. As long as the Kremlin perceives that it …

In the spring of 2019, a private jet landed at the airport near Basel. What looked like a routine flight turned into an international police operation: officers seized 600 kilograms of cocaine hidden in 21 suitcases. The trail of the smuggling network led to a Balkan drug cartel, Czech pilots, …

Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Europe have established a complementary and mutually beneficial relationship in the energy sector. Now, very few people remember, but when Putin came to power in 2000, one of the new president’s ideas was to strengthen Europe’s political independence by combining the continent’s technological and …

In this analysis, I would like to demonstrate three points: Southern Europe is completely lacking in plans for managing immigration, both from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb;The pro-European narrative promotes an unrealistic view that the European economy would benefit from immigration more than the middle and working classes would suffer …

The rapidly evolving dynamics of global power and security have transformed Eurasia into a critical arena of competition and cooperation. The continent, spanning from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has become a focal point for major geopolitical shifts, particularly amid the waning dominance of Western-centric institutions and the rise of …

Few relatively knowledgeable observers of international relations doubt that Europe today once again poses the greatest threat to peace. This fact is especially depressing, given that virtually the entire experience of world politics since World War II has been aimed at creating reliable ways to prevent a repetition of the …

BERLIN – The environmental and human toll of mineral extraction is becoming clearer – and more alarming – by the day. Roughly 60% of Ghana’s waterways are now heavily polluted due to gold mining along riverbanks. In Peru, many communities have lost access to safe drinking water after environmental protections …