Commentary

Europe needs to look again at Pakistan

Pakistan is the pivot around which revolves peace on the Indian subcontinent and the success of NATO’s mission to Afghanistan, argues Korski. But EU?s policy towards that country resembles its old technocratic and apolitical approach.

The return of “Eastern Europe”

The term “Eastern Europe” suggests a new division of Europe. But it also highlights how integrated and interdependent Europe has become.

More trouble ahead

Endless political infighting and the economy in the doldrums – as if the gas dispute weren’t bad enough, Ukraine is lurching from one crisis to another

Of summits, walls and ‘pigs’

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, divisions between the East and West remain too wide

Ukraine’s collapse

What are the likely consequences of an economic and political collapse in Ukraine? Nicu Popescu explains

Bridging Europe’s solidarity gap

Today there is a new division in Europe – a solidarity gap. How will the EU bridge this perception, asks Vessela Tcherneva.

Europe?s Russia problem

The European Union must develop a united policy on a hostile Russia, writes George Soros

Is it Russia?s time for democracy?

Russia is one of the few countries where economic growth and political freedom have moved in opposite directions. Will the financial crisis help democracy in Russia?

Moldova?s elections

Nicu Popescu discusses what is at stake in Moldova’s April 5 elections