Opinion pieces

  • A bad deal for Ukraine and Yanukovich, by Tomas Valasek
    Financial Times, 27 April 2010

    The new Ukrainian president has got off to a bad start in foreign policy terms. Last week, Viktor Yanukovich signed a lease agreement with Moscow that will allow the Russian Black Sea Fleet to stay in Ukraine for at least another 32 years.

  • Le G20 a manqué une chance de réformer la finance, by Katinka Barysch
    La Tribune, 24 April 2010

    Vendredi après-midi, ministres des Finances et banquiers centraux des pays riches et émergents du G20 se sont réunis à Washington pour discuter des projets de régulation du secteur financier.

  • Turkey and Europe: A shifting access, by Katinka Barysch
    Open democracy, 14 April 2010

    The EU accession process could yet be the strongest bond that Turkey has to the west. But Ankara's other links in that direction seem to be slackening.

  • Greece rescue is just a sticking plaster, by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 30 March 2010

    For several years it has been evident that any momentum the European Union had for further integration has been dwindling. For instance, despite the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty, the EU shows few signs of developing more united and effective foreign policies.

  • Číne a Amerike musíme ísť príkladom, by Tomas Valasek
    SME.sk, 22 March 2010

    Svet po kríze už bude iný, nebude v ňom vládnuť samotná Amerika, novú koncepciu musí prijať aj NATO, hovorí svetovo uznávaný bezpečnostný analytik TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK.

  • The seven sins of Stockholm, by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 01 March 2010

    Last December, EU countries unveiled a new strategy for how its justice and home affairs policy should develop by 2015. The plan – negotiated by the Swedish presidency – outlined what the member states intend to do to tackle serious crime, manage migration and extend law-abiding citizens' freedom to travel and work.

  • 'West Bank first' approach has failed, by Clara Marina O'Donnell
    European Voice, 04 February 2010

    The EU must convince the US to abandon a policy whose flawed logic condemns it to failure.

  • Europe cannot afford to let Greece default, by Simon Tilford
    Financial Times, 15 January 2010

    The eurozone cannot afford to make an example of crisis-hit Greece. Claims by officials and politicians in the currency bloc's fiscally more robust economies - including Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's finance minister - that the Greeks will have to find their own way out of the crisis, are not credible.