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  • Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
    Insight by Rem Korteweg, 23 August 2013
    Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
  • Turkey’s Twitter generation is its European future
    Insight by Heather Grabbe, 19 June 2013
    Gezi park protest
  • Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
    Bulletin article by Rem Korteweg, 25 March 2013
    Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
  • What Arab countries think of democracy
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 21 May 2008

    Earlier this month, the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) presented its first report on the state of democratic reform in the Arab world. ARI is a consortium of a dozen leading Arab research institutes which try to promote peaceful democratic reform across the Middle East (CER and a few other non-Arab think-tanks are associated with the initiative).
  • France finds a friend in Ukraine
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 02 May 2008

    The government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a charm offensive towards Ukraine. French diplomats in Brussels have begun saying that Ukraine should have a ‘privileged’ status with the EU.
  • Turkey: The constitutional frontline
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Open democracy, 14 April 2008

    A legal case against Turkey's ruling party reopens the secular-Islamist argument over the country's future. It's time for wise leadership, says Katinka Barysch.
  • Turkey's turmoil, the EU's reaction
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 10 April 2008

    Political turmoil is nothing new in Turkey. After six years of unusual stability, tensions have mounted since early 2007. The army threatened to topple the AKP government in case it made Abdullah Gul president.
  • The EU, Israel and Hamas
    Working paper by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 04 April 2008

    The US has embarked on a new attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, backed by wide international support. But the situation on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians is so bad that peace looks out of reach for now.

  • For a new Iran policy
    Bulletin article by Christoph Bertram , 01 April 2008

    For almost six years now the West has tried – and failed – to stop the Iranian nuclear programme. Instead, nuclear enrichment has become a matter of Iranian national pride and sovereignty.

  • The Czechs in the EU: In the middle of the class
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 March 2008

    On a recent visit to Prague, people kept asking me how the Czech Republic was doing as EU member-state, and whether it was a successful member.
  • Kosovo - the economic dilemma
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 February 2008

    Now that Kosovo’s independence party is over, the hard work begins. Despite the efforts of the UN and the EU, the institutions of government remain fragile, corruption is rife, and organised crime is a problem.