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Crispin Blunt MP on current developments in the Middle East
Crispin Blunt MP, Chairman of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, reflects on current developments in the Middle East, including how they relate to…
Violence and revolt in Israel/Palestine – the Palestinian perspective
Hugh Lovatt speaks to Fadi Quran, activist, senior campaigner for Avaaz, and according to the Time magazine “the new face of the Middle East”
Violence and revolt in Israel/Palestine – the Israeli perspective
ECFR's Hugh Lovatt and Mattia Toaldo speak to independent journalist and editor Noam Sheizaf, who has previously worked for a number of Israeli news…
Russian airstrikes in Syria – reactions and repercussions
Julien Barnes-Dacey and Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellows at ECFR, Jeremy Shapiro, Fellow at Brookings, and Dr Rim Turkmani, co-founder of the Syrian Civil…
Israel-Palestine after UNGA part 1 – a Palestinian leadership perspective
In the first discussion Dr Nabil Shaath, a senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, looks at the internal Palestinian democratic process and the…
Israel-Palestine after UNGA part 2 – an Israeli human rights perspective
The second panel discusses the campaign in Israel for Palestinian human rights and the consequences of prolonged occupation for Palestinians and for Israeli democracy…
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Is ISIS Putin’s saviour?
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Nikolay Kozhanov, scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Centre, Jeremy Shapiro, Policy Fellow at Brookings, and ECFR Senior Policy Fellow…
Entrevista a Anna Terrón: “El sistema de Dublín ha sido desbordado”
Entrevistamos a la miembro del Consejo español de ECFR, sobre el papel de la Unión Europea ante la crisis de los refugiados
EU differentiation and Israeli settlements
ECFR policy fellows Mattia Toaldo and Hugh Lovatt, authors of the policy brief “EU differentiation and Israeli settlements”, believe that the EU needs to…