For NATO, Russia is the number one threat. But China is also coming into the military alliance’s sights For the first time, the defense alliance is taking a closer look at China. It was said at the summit in Madrid on June 28th, that the People’s Republic is a strategic challenge. NATO is particularly concerned about the growing cooperation between …

Since the war outbreak, millions of Ukrainians have left their country. Many have lost their homes, family members and friends and now live in Poland, Romania or Germany. No one is imposing time limits on them, understandably. Simultaneously many Russians also left their country. They are people who left after the war began, out of horror at the government, fear …

Snake Island is the only real island in the Black Sea, the subject of Greek tales, and the site of a dispute between Romania and Ukraine for natural resources. The sea and fresh water, land and vegetation, gold and oil are all available there. The massive pier, built in the Soviet Union, is capable of accommodating a rather large vessel. The island’s …

France has had to shake up its ambitious plans for the EU, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A crisis that did not prevent the country from reaching agreements on important issues. This is how to sum up the six months of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which ends today, June 30th. French diplomats must pack …

Over the latest decades, a controversial question has roamed the environments of Global Security, both in academia and on the political scene: is NATO an obsolete institution? Many wondered what purposes might the organisation serve in a world where its initial rationale as an opposing party to the Soviet Union had fallen, and its member countries suffered virtually no active …

On June 23, the European Union decided to put Ukraine on the route to EU membership, acting with unusual speed and unanimity to drive the embattled country further away from Russia’s influence and closer to the West. At a summit in Brussels, leaders from the EU’s 27 member states obtained the necessary unanimous agreement to award Ukraine candidate status. This …

On February 24, 2022, Russia initiated an undeclared war on Ukraine. The US and other nations have criticized Russia’s unprecedented military attack as “unprovoked and unjustifiable.  Members of legislatures, local governments, corporations, and the public in the United States and internationally have backed Ukraine and criticized Russia’s aggression. Hundreds of companies from the United States and other countries have withdrew, halted, or …

In Europe, the past months have been regarded as showcases of the extents of humanitarian and governmental solidarity, as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine were welcomed across the continent. Such openness towards Ukrainians, however, bitterly highlights the hypocrisy inherent in the differences in treatment of asylum-seekers of other provenances, of which the latest refugee policy of the …

At its meeting at the end of March 2022, the European Council adopted a strategic compass for security and defence. Compared to the policy outlining the Union’s main strategic lines, meaning the European Security Policy from 2003, the strategic compass presents a real opportunity for concrete progress in security and defence. Based on an analysis of the dangers carried out …

Following the suspension of Russian gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has accused Moscow of blackmail. But she said the EU was prepared for this scenario and would “provide a collective response”. They are in close contact with all EU states and have been working to secure supplies from other countries, she said before …