Putin’s enemy within: Demonising the “fifth column”
In Putin's Russia, anyone who opposes the Kremlin is treated as a threat, while those who commit political murder and violent attacks are left alone
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Yemen melts down
The devestating bombings on Friday are just the latest sign that the country is coming apart at the seams
Five takeaways from France’s departmental elections
After his party’s poor showing in the departmental elections, Hollande must face up to five disturbing realities
Transforming the global system
In the new polycentric world, global institutions must be reformed so that regional powers have a say in the system
View from Stockholm: The EU must stay the course
Sweden continues to support sanctions on Russia and the Swedish public is fully behind its government's hard line on Sweden's eastern neighbour
What Europe needs is an EIIB, not an AIIB
Europe should be financing its own public projects, not joining a venture driven by Chinese interests and standards
Militarisation in the Russian Arctic: Should the EU be worried?
Russia’s increasing military actions in the Arctic are aimed at securing its broader strategic interests, as well as tightening its hold on an area that it has identified as a “strategic resource base”
Germany’s Foreign Ministry reinvents itself
Steinmeier’s review process has come up with a range of prescriptions for the German foreign ministry, and the far-reaching reform envisioned could transform German diplomacy
Xi’s paradoxical China policy
In both domestic and foreign policy, Xi has taken a hard and soft line simultaneously, aimed at bringing China closer to his vision of the “Chinese dream”
Europe’s vulnerability on Russian gas
European member states have different degrees of exposure to disruption of supplies from Russia, which must be addressed to secure the future of the EU's Energy Union