Europe

Germany: Germany has emerged as a key country in supporting Ukrainian refugees, having spent €30.6 billion on assistance since the conflict began.In response to the ongoing conflict, the country has rolled out educational programs and labor market initiatives designed to facilitate long-term integration. The programs include: languages courses, vocational training, job placement service. Moreover, Germany’s dedication to educational support for young refugees ensures their smooth transition into public schools. With ...

“God is on the side with the best artillery.” During Ukraine's defence against Russia's full-scale invasion, Europe has been criticised for failing to use its vast economic advantage to bring God on to Ukraine’s side. Certainly, Western artillery systems provided to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have proven incredibly accurate and survivable, with none of the twenty German PzH 2000 yet destroyed. But their qualitative advantage is diminished without ...

Amid political upheaval, Georgia finds itself at a crossroads with the adoption of the "foreign agents" law by the ruling Georgian Dream Party. Last year, this law was interrupted by widespread protests but now was reintroduced with a new definition, targeting "Organizations Pursuing the Interests of a Foreign Power". After the parliament passed its first reading of the bill, peaceful mass protests took over the centre of Tbilisi, opposing the ...

After the war is estimated to have killed over 40.000 People and counting, many European Countries still fail to criticise Israel and call for a ceasefire. For example, when the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, visited Jordan in September, her Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi called for German Support in sanctioning Israel. Further critique by the Director of the Global Public Policy Institute, Thorsten Benner, was that European Soft Power will ...

From 6 to 9 June, the EU went to the polls to elect 720 representatives for the European Parliament (EP). The EP experienced a "shift to the right": the centre-right EPP secured the most seats, the Eurosceptic and nationalist ECR and ID made noticeable gains, the centre-left and left S&D and the Left stagnated, and the Greens and the liberal Renew Europe group lost the most representatives. Negotiations over governance ...

Brief by Mihnea Turcitu Undersea cables, the shadow workers of our economy, defense and communication. As some might have noticed these cables have recently come into the limelight, on the front page of news sites like Foreign Policy. The reason for it is not necessarily the most cheerful. These undersea cables have been under suspected attacks by Russia and China, when speaking of Europe, and Houthi rebels when talking about ...