June, 2021

• 11 June

  The U.K.’s Incoherent China Strategy

  

  Earlier this month, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, delivered a speech in Parliament setting out measures to ensure that British businesses do not profit from what he called the “industrial scale” forced labor of minority Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. However, Raab’s remarks made no mention of …

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• 11 June

  Victims of the Balkans Wars Are Still Seeking Justice

  

  It’s a cold morning in Rance, a mountainous village east of Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, and Isak Asllani is preparing to pay tribute at a memorial for his fallen family and friends. It is a painful ritual he carries out every Feb. 17 to mark the anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of …

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• 11 June

  Slovakia’s Reformists Face an Uncertain Future

  

  A display of hubris by Slovakian Prime Minister Igor Matovic over a controversial Russian coronavirus vaccine has cost him his job and shaken a reformist government in which many Slovaks had invested so much hope. On April 1, Matovic resigned, just over a year after coming to power following an …

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• 11 June

  Bulgaria’s Fractured Politics Marks the End of the Borissov Era

  

  As a European Union and NATO member that borders Turkey, hugs the Black Sea coast and maintains cordial relations with Russia, Bulgaria is a strategically significant country. Yet in recent years, it has rarely made international news—except for the occasional domestic clash over Russian influence and periodic mass protests over …

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• 11 June

  US Says Nuclear Talks in Danger if Iran Fools With IAEA Monitoring

  The United States on Tuesday warned Iran not to mess with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s monitoring of its nuclear facilities, warning that such intervention would jeopardize negotiations currently being held in Vienna over a return to the 2015 nuclear deal. If Tehran were to “prevent the collection of or …

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• 11 June

  Orbán’s EU Agenda Follows Populist Script

  The image of the inward-looking populist who rejects international cooperation is inaccurate. On the contrary, populists engage quite actively in regional and international organizations, and the leadership of these organizations and their member states do not yet know how to respond to the populist challenge. In a new book, researchers …

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• 10 June

  Le Hamas, premier parti israélien?

  

  En 2005, le retrait de Gaza et l’espoir d’un règlement pacifique du conflit israélo-palestinien qu’il a suscité ont permis pour la dernière fois à une majorité modérée d’arriver au pouvoir en Israël. Mais la prise du pouvoir par le parti islamiste à Gaza a transformé ce territoire en usine de …

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• 10 June

  Eritrea blames the US for ‘destablisation’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

  

  Eritrea’s foreign minister accuses Biden administration of ‘stoking further conflict and destabilisation’ in Ethiopia’s north. Eritrea’s foreign minister has blamed US administrations that supported the Tigray People’s Liberation Movement (TPLF) for the last 20 years for the current conflict in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, adding that blaming Eritrea for the …

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• 10 June

  US air defenses shoot down drones near Iraq air base

  

  Drones were intercepted and brought down near the air base that hosts US forces. US air defense systems shot down two drones near Ayn al-Asad air base shortly after midnight on Sunday, Iraq’s military said. The encroachment, knocked down by US counter-rocket, artillery and mortar systems (C-RAM), is the latest …

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• 10 June

  Turkish-backed Syrian armed groups unify forces

  

  The Syrian National Army affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Aleppo is merging a number of its factions under one group in order to reorganize ranks and prepare for any upcoming battle. The areas controlled by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the countryside of Aleppo in …

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