Given the country’s twentieth-century history, its leaders would want to avoid talking about national, rather than European, interests.

The Greens have recently emerged as a serious contender in the run-up to September's federal elections.

The country's new strategy for achieving economic self-reliance poses an unprecedented challenge.

The European Union should be in no hurry either to engage with Putin’s regime or to force a diplomatic crisis.

People understand that internationalism, not parochialism, is a way out of the global crises.

Israel should develop an unnegotiated two-state solution, by establishing a viable Palestinian state unilaterally.

The global competition between China and the US puts pressure on Europe’s regional order.

Like Erdoğan’s constant attempts to disempower Kurdish voters, Trump and the Republican Party are desperate to disenfranchise African-Americans.

Europeans should make clear that the EU accession process can be either rolled back or pushed forward.

China is quickly penetrating the very sectors that Europeans regard as central to their own economic future.

It is inevitable that the Covid-19 crisis will remake globalisation one way or another.

Today's European leaders have been shaped by a decade of austerity, refugee crises, and America's denouement as a global hegemon.

The divisions that threaten EU integration are even wider within member states than between them