With Incredible India, one should always expect the unexpected
The 2024 Indian elections brought an unexpected resurgence of a real multiparty democratic system. With its 1.4 billion people, India is certainly the largest democracy in the world, and the EU, buoyed by the election results, should continue to actively engage with India as a major partner – in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Prime Minister […]
Strengthening Europe’s democratic identity and security in a more autocratic world
Much attention is rightly being paid to the well-documented tendencies in most of the world’s regions for autocracy to have been gaining some ground in the last two decades at the expense of democracy. Europe has not been immune from the impact of the several megatrends and profound systemic shocks that seem to have been […]
A visit by Borrell highlights why Georgia is still the EU’s perennial problem child
The EU’s High Representative, Josep Borrell, has just embarked on his first official visit to Georgia to discuss the country’s progress on its European integration path. The visit carries immense significance given the EU’s impending assessment of the progress made by Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia in their quest for EU membership. While the EU already […]
The Maastricht Treaty 30 years on
By manufacturing a crisis over Ukraine, President Putin is testing the West’s resolve and Russia’s place in a post-post-Cold War world. With the costs of preparing for war mounting, the Kremlin will soon be forced to act or scale back. The question is whether Putin will use the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics just as he […]
From self-doubt to self-assurance
The rivalry and contestation of today’s world should be reason enough for the European Union to act as a cohesive force, if only to avoid being outmanoeuvred by major powers. Yet EU countries and institutions are still struggling to set aside their differences and focus on the common interest. The 10th anniversary of the European […]