On Sunday 7 February Yuliya Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych go head to head in the second round of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the first since 2004’s Orange Revolution. Andrew Wilson has started his blog up again. First instalment: A Difficult Week for Tymoshenko.
Spain’s call for the EU to lift the arms embargo against China suffers from bad timing and blundering diplomacy
French and German ministers are set to meet in Paris on 4 February. While it looks like the engine that helps drive Europe is running again, we may get nothing more than handshakes.
The only relevant question about immigrants is whether or not their children will go to university
After nearly a decade of effort, the Lisbon Treaty is finally in place ? and Europeans finally have the chance to develop the unified voice and combined weight in the world that we all now understand to be necessary. Yet Europe?s national leaders seem unable to curb the sort of self-indulgent behaviour that will sabotage this historic opportunity.
For a middleweight country like Spain, the most successful means of exerting influence on the world stage is to exert influence in the EU
It is time for the West to stop dreaming and adopt more pragmatic goals in Afghanistan
Catherine Ashton appears to be an out-fighter
For the second year running, the most comprehensive ranking of the world?s leading think-tanks has named ECFR the ?Best new think tank in the last 5 years?
The dust has settled on the first round of voting in the Ukrainian presidential elections. Andrew Wilson tries to make sense of the results