He saved this relationship. If not for this strange Trump factor, we really would have been in a Turkey-Russian axis
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The official claim is that tourism figures are back up to nearly six million a year; but unofficial sources claim closer to two million
Its Turkey’s Libya now
A new tug-of-war is looming on the horizon. The East is ready to give battle
The more there is a Russian centrality in Libya, the more the US gets alerted. But we are far from an American intervention that is not political
It benefited from the contrast that many Europeans drew between China and Russia. In this view, whereas Russia was actively hostile to the EU, China only sought to stymie European unity on a set of narrowly Sinocentric issues
Europe’s window of opportunity in Libya is closing. It needs to move fast if it is to protect its role as a barrier against Russian encroachment, and prevent the development of another Syria-style conflict in its neighborhood
The Iranian government is less concerned with how sustainable the system is. It is much more concerned with national security. And in their view, Assad is the best guarantee of national security
It is time for the EU to stop being afraid of its own shadow in security matters. Without dealing with such sensitive, and un-Brussels-like issues, the EU influence, effectiveness and strategic sovereignty ambitions will always hit glass ceiling
The real test for EU power and its strategic sovereignty won’t be in masks, but on how the EU deals with external problems, not least in its neighbourhood, write Nicu Popescu and Gustav Gressel