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The Gibraltar Opportunity
What has long been a source of tension for UK and Spain could become the point of their future cooperation on the new international scene.
Rabat Sharpens Its Salami Slicer Over Ceuta
Ceuta’s crisis is not just about territorial and popular sovereignty, but yet another example of the Moroccan regime Machiavellian salami-slicing tactics.
Elections in Hungary and Peru: One Out, One In?
As one autocrat is deposed, another often pops up somewhere else. While we can celebrate Orbán’s, Peru’s democratic crisis might be getting worse.
Desperate Center-Left Looking to Cynical Sánchez
A center-left that is scared and desperate will look to ever more demagogic alternatives to save them.
How Denmark Could Deal with the US in Greenland
Denmark should transform a potential military takeover into a political battle by calling for a referendum in Greenland.
A Ruble for Your Peace?
A US-brokered “peace” that rewards Russian aggression at Ukraine’s expense is not pragmatism but appeasement, and history shows such deals only embolden dictators.
Why Is Erdoğan Being So Pragmatic?
The welcome news of Tufan Erhürman’s landslide electoral victory in unrecognized Northern Cyprus marks a significant step toward ending one of Europe’s longstanding conflicts. But why is the Turkish president congratulating him?
Are We Back on Course with Ukraine?
Has Trump’s flip-flopping nature finally flipped the right way at last? Could it be that, after wasting 9 months on isolationist utopia, the US president is finally seeing the optimism that could change the course of the Russian-Ukrainian War?
When You Make Yourself the Pariah
Spanish president Pedro Sánchez's latest attempts to hold his feeble left-wing coalition together has come with a diplomatic spat with Israel….