Like other recent systemic crises, the coronavirus pandemic has confronted us with an inconvenient truth: the risks associated with international openness might very well outweigh the gains. If today’s multilateral frameworks are to have a future, they must be brought back into the service of national sovereignty
Recently, we have seen funding cuts to the WHO in the middle of the coronavirus crisis and national governments closing borders instead of calling for…
Arancha González, Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, shares her thinking on how global health can help revive multilateralism
Germany’s nuclear sharing role in NATO is no given – and what political leaders in Berlin do next will have implications for the whole alliance
France, Germany, and the United Kingdom will have to decide whether to support the US cause to extend the UN embargo or oppose it. But neither option is ideal
Germany has adopted a position that the Israeli government will likely interpret as support for its policies of occupation and settlement
Berlin has quietly made concessions to new calls for greater solidarity. But back home this consensus may not last forever
For Trump, coronavirus could be the right pandemic at the right time – supplying Republicans with the cover to stop voters turning out
“We are at a moment of truth, which is to decide whether the European Union is a political project or just a market project. I…
The post-corona recovery threatens Europe’s cohesion, but Spain’s attempt to bridge the north-south divide is likely to fall short