Demographic Jigsaw: Puzzling Out a Resilient EU
In December 2019, for the first time, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen assigned a portfolio containing demography as a policy area to Vice-President Dubravka Suica. […]
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The 2024 Taiwanese General Elections: fierce moderate Lai prevails while fluid kingmaker Ko rises
The polls have closed, and Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won the Taiwanese presidency, beating Hou Yu-ih of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Ko Wen-je […]
A Pact: So What?
In the early hours of 20 December, after a marathon of several days, negotiators from the Council, represented by the Spanish Presidency, and the European Parliament, supported by the Commission, […]
A quoi servent les élections en RDC?
Depuis 2006, la qualité des élections en RDC, mesurée par le degré de conformité de ses opérations au cadre juridique, s’est constamment détériorée. En 2018, le processus électoral s’est déroulé […]
Xi-curity: How Economic Security Ideas shape China’s Economic Strategies
In the run-up to the December EU-China summit in Beijing, tension loomed over issues like the EU’s anti-subsidy investigation in China’s electric vehicle sector, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), […]
The EU and the Red Sea: Now This Is Geopolitics
The EU is preparing to launch a maritime operation to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea from attacks by the Houthis from Yemen. A welcome and necessary decision; and […]