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LE GRAND CONTINENT: Recension de l’ouvrage « L’Ukraine aux yeux de l’Allemagne : images et perceptions d’un pays en bouleversement » (GIZ 2018)

August 21, 2018

  Cet article propose une traduction de la recension réalisée par Andreas Umland de l’ouvrage L’Ukraine aux yeux de l’Allemagne : images et perceptions d’un pays en bouleversement (Die Ukraine in den Augen Deutschlands: Bilder und Wahrnehmungen eines Landes im Umbruch. Kiev: Büro für politische Kommunikation, GIZ GmbH, 2018. 111 p.) publié en 2018 par… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

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NATO sacrifices the Baltics in favor of the Black Sea

July 19, 2018

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the NATO’s summit in Brussels that the Alliance would improve its ability to facilitate the movement of forces in Europe, but did not plan to deploy additional units to the Baltic countries and Poland. It should be noted that the 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw was Baltic-centric, highly concentrated… » read more

  Posted by NATO and Baltic states today

blogactiv, Europe's East, Global Europe

European mobilisation for the release of pastor Brunson, prisoner in Turkey

June 4, 2018

Guest blog post by Nicolas Bauer, legal counsel, European center for law and justice Without any reasonable justification, the trial of pastor Andrew Brunson has been delayed again, this time to 18 July, that is 21 months after the beginning of the detention. He is accused of “Christianization” associated with terrorism and became an emblematic… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Europe's East, Turkish

Wie kann Russland postimperial werden? Die EU und NATO sollten bereits heute den Weg für eine russische Westintegration nach Putin aufzeichnen

May 14, 2018

Der Westen kann bereits heute die Entstehung einer postimperialen Russischen Föderation fördern, indem er den Russen einen konkreten Plan für eine schrittweise Aufnahme ihres Landes in europäische Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitsstrukturen nach dem Abschied vom Imperium anbietet. Andreas Umland Ein entscheidender zeithistorischer Bestimmungsfaktor für die heutigen Spannungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen ist die verpasste Chance… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

blogactiv, Europe's East, Politique, Russland

LITTLE CHANGED IN UKRAINE SO FAR. WHY?

April 25, 2018

The scheduled OTG (united territorial communities) elections will take place in Ukraine on April 29, 2018. The three leaders are known: Batkivshchyna Party of Yulia Tymoshenko, “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” of the current President of Ukraine and the “Agrarian Party”. However, the leading pack might change. One cannot underestimate the Ukraine’s demand for politicians who could… » read more

  Posted by Taras Semenyuk

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Regional Policy

Illiberal Hungary, as a Result of Historical Frustrations – One Way Road?

April 16, 2018

Both Europe and Hungary were surprised one week ago by witnessing the third, landslide victory of Viktor Orbán, with unexpectedly high participation, resulting a consitutional supermajority. Were the elections fair and democratic? Is the Hungarian illiberalism democracy or dictatorship? What are the cornerstones of the Orbán regime? What about the weak opposition? What are the… » read more

  Posted by Hungarian-European Citizen

blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), EU news & updates, Europe's East, European Integration, Hungary, Visegrád alliance (PL-CZ-SK-HU)

Warum die Ukraine den exjugoslawischen Republiken folgen sollte: Kiews Weg zur EU-Mitgliedschaft führt über den Westbalkan

April 3, 2018

Zusammenfassung: Nach Jahren der Stagnation sind die Westbalkanländer wieder auf der EU-Beitrittsagenda. Mitte Mai 2018 findet der Balkangipfel der bulgarischen EU Präsidentschaft in Sofia statt. Diese und ähnliche Entwicklungen passieren bislang ohne Einbeziehung der Ukraine, Moldaus und Georgiens. Kiew und Tiflis könnten, wie Chişinău das schon teilweise tut, ihre europäischen Ambitionen durch Teilnahme an neuen… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

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L’Europa Orientale troverà una stabilità?

March 19, 2018

  Vasile Rotaru e Andreas Umland (Traduzione: Eleonora Laura M. Rizzi)   Le mosse della Russia in Crimea e nell’Ucraina sud-orientale hanno portato la Nato a rafforzare il principio di solidarietà all’interno dell’Alleanza Nordatlantica e a potenziarne le capacità complessive. In particolare, le mosse della Russia hanno spinto la Romania e la Polonia, i due… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

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Countering a corruption counter-revolution in Romania

March 8, 2018

Guest blog post by Nicolas Tenzer. Tenzer is chairman of the Paris-based Centre for Study and Research for Political Decision (CERAP). Institutions of democratic transparency and judicial independence recast as a “deep state.” A ruling party determined to stand by criminally tainted figures. George Soros invoked as an insidious force fomenting political instability. That description… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Bulgarian, Business & Climate Change, Competition, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Globalisation, Romanian

Czech and Slovak victims of coercive sterilization await justice

March 2, 2018

    Guest post by Claude Cahn. The author is Human Rights Officer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as the author of the book Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics: Examining Struggles around Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women (Brill, 2015). This article does not necessarily… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe

Will Mogherini decapitate Kosovo?

February 28, 2018

Kosovo’s elite might soon be facing justice, if of an imperfect kind. Whether and how justice will be made is up to the EU, writes Andrea Lorenzo Capussela. Guest post by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela. Capussela is the author of State-Building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans and The Political Economy of… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, democracy, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Justice & Home Affairs

The Western Sahara Case : Montesquieu is the one who is murdered!

February 26, 2018

Guest post by Jean-Jacques Neuer, Lawyer-Solicitor On 27 February, the European Court of Justice – ECJ – is about to pronounce a judgement invalidating all agreements made by the European Union with China because of the latter’s presence in Tibet, with Russia as it has annexed Crimea and with the United States, which does not… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe

Europas zentrale rolle für den erfolg der reformen in Moldau

January 22, 2018

Gastbeitrag von Vlad Plahotniuc, Vorsitzender der Demokratischen Partei Moldaus. Es gibt Zeiten, in denen sich jedes Land einmal an einem Scheideweg befindet: etwa wenn es vor der Aufgabe steht, wandelnden Ansprüchen und Möglichkeiten gerecht zu werden, wichtige strukturelle Herausforderungen zu bewältigen oder zentrale gesellschaftliche Werte neu zu definieren. Besonders in der heutigen Zeit, in der… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Europe's East, Global Europe, Regional Policy

Brussels triggers Article 7 against Poland: a new hope for the judicial freedom of expression?

January 8, 2018

Guest post by Doriane de Lestrange, lawyer focusing on EU Regulatory law   On last 20 December, the European Commission made the crucial decision to trigger Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty against Poland. This article, which has never been used before, allows the European commissioners to deprive Warsaw from its voting rights as it… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

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