28 Mar 2024
War and Peace in Europe since the 1990s
17 May 2023
Migration cooperation in the English Channel
16 March 2023
Europe in crisis – How resilient is our democracy?
3 November 2022
Ukrainian EU accession – A project for this generation
6 September 2022
EU candidate status for Bosnia
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28 Mar 2024
Europeans need to find better ways to defend the values enshrined in their treaties, not with pious words and empty threats, but in the language of power and money that politicians like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban will understand.
ESI report: The wizard, the virus and a pot of gold -…
28 Mar 2024
Thank You Payments for hosting Ukrainian refugees will not only cover basic needs but will also send a powerful signal to Russia that its blackmail will fail.
ESI report: Olga in Paris – Why are there so few Ukrainian refugees in France? (14 February 2023)
Also available in German: Olga in…
28 Mar 2024
A court ruling shows a way for the UK and other European governments to combine migration control with respect for the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.
ESI report: A wise court – Rwanda, Safe Third Countries and a Channel breakthrough in 2023 (30 June 2023)
ESI…
28 Mar 2024
I live in Berlin. It is from here, the very centre of modern Europe, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog.
Rumeli Observer
26 Apr 2024
The lesson from Russia in the years before 2022 is that the only way to keep a country in the Council of Europe is by insisting that the country abides by the Council’s standards or leaves. Is it already too late in the case of Azerbaijan? It is certainly not too late to try to find out, as a lot…