Anja Dargatz is the head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) regional office in Venezuela. She previously headed the FES offices in Baden-Württemberg, Bolivia and Sudan. She worked in the Peace ...

Yaşar Aydın is a researcher at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor aimed to dismantle the ...

Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita since October 2024. He joined Rzeczpospolita in 2008 as head of the national department, later becoming deputy editor-in-chief. He won the Grand Press award in ...

For years, Eastern Europe was largely seen as a back-office tech outsourcing hub. Today, Ukraine is spearheading a new wave ...

Richard Van Herzeele is a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, researching public private cooperation against cocaine and human smuggling as part of the FORT PORT project.

Natasha Foote is a freelance journalist, podcaster and moderator specialising in EU agrifood policy. She previously worked as a journalist with the EU media EURACTIV, and before that spent several ...

Rotterdam’s fight against drug smuggling shows that public and private forces, when united, can set a new standard for European port security Has the Netherlands become a narco-state? This question ...

In the last 100 days, the deeply rooted and obsolete idea that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is still a natural US sphere of influence has been tested once more. President Donald Trump’s ...

In the UK, a supposedly progressive government is taking a leaf out of the right-wing playbook by slashing disability benefits What keeps you awake at night? For me, these days, however persistent the ...

On the evening of Romania’s runoff election, the weather seemed to match the political climate: changeable. Rain and sun took turns — a symbol of the uncertainty that had characterised the country in ...

The harassment, detention, torture and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War and ...

The lifting of US sanctions marks a turning point for Syria and its new president, offering more than 20 million people hope for a better future picture alliance / Anadolu | Tamam Jerbi Syrians ...