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Ultimately, Europe faces the choice between complete submission to Washington’s dictates or a leap forward into true ...
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Return of the gunboats

Trump’s mix of military muscle and tariff pressure signals a bid to fold Latin America back into a compliant US ‘backyard’ ...
Australia’s social media ban won’t protect teens, but it shows who holds power. Europe should make sure to choose a different ...
Merz delivered his cautious formulation on Palestinian statehood while standing beside a leader who categorically denies it, ...
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Yoav Shemer-Kunz

Dr Yoav Shemer-Kunz is a political scientist at the University of Strasbourg and EU Advocacy Officer at B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Former ...
Europe’s push to shift asylum procedures to third countries risks outsourcing not only refugees, but also its moral and political responsibility ...
Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin on the fragile ceasefire and how Israel’s 2026 elections could shift the ...
Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?
The current ‘peace plan’ is less about conflict settlement than about the Kremlin’s fears and its desire to control Ukraine ...
Former President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz on defending democracy, the importance of honest communication and ...
Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve elite interests rather than public good, so they refuse to participate. Low ...
The corruption scandal in the country continues to spread, and the pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy is mounting. On Friday, ...