View from Madrid: The many-faced Janus
Spain is inclined towards conditional accommodation with Russia but tends to refrain from open overtures towards Moscow
Wider Europe
View from Rome: Reflection before renewal
Italy sees the European Council as a forum for policy and political discussion, where measures should be debated instead of simply adopted.
View from Paris: The Syrian prism
'Selective engagement' echoes perfectly France's preferred approach to Russia
View from Berlin: Keeping Europe’s cool
Merkel does not want an escalation of Russia-bashing out of fear, as it would only reward the Kremlin’s scaremongering.
Aleppo is paying for Russia’s imagined global threat
Russia's brutality in Aleppo reflects Moscow’s perspective on warfighting, its military capabilities, and its sense of threat.
Threat of instability looms large ahead of Georgia elections
Tuesday's car bomb in Tbilisi could be just the beginning of election-related turmoil in Georgia
6 Oct
Turkey revisited: a European foreign policy of migration
In a public debate, Almut Möller discussed with Gerald Knaus and Roderick Parks, European border management and migration
Keeping up appearances: How Europe is supporting Ukraine’s transformation
Reforms in key state institutions, such as the judiciary, have failed to deliver results
ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Donald Trump, NATO, Russia and Iran
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard first speaks with David Sanger, journalist from the New York Times, about what Donald Trump would mean for the future of…
The good, the bad and the Gülenists
The role of the Gülen movement in Turkey’s coup attempt