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Ukraine – countering the ‘Munich Spirit’ – an imperative for France

These past months have been complicated for Ukraine. On the one hand, the summer counter-offensive seems to have failed. At…

10 months ago
  • Economy

Kubilius rejoices: we escaped from the Soviet Union as beggars and are now like Japan

We escaped from the Soviet Union as beggars, and now we have overtaken Portugal, Greece, Spain, and parts of Central…

1 year ago
  • European Union

A Europe without Christian values would be a Europe without a soul

The world has been in crisis management mode for more than a decade: we experienced a global financial crisis and…

1 year ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

From War to sustainable Peace: the destiny of Europe

The entire year, Europe is at war. Not just Ukraine but the whole of Europe is engulfed in this major…

1 year ago
  • European Union

What’s does Europe’s future need? It needs you.

You’re doing your best to live responsibly. You shop carefully. You want to ‘green’ your house with solar panels. You…

1 year ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

For their freedom and for ours

The appeal by 140 leading European figures we publish today on The Lithuania Tribune seems particularly timely. It calls on…

2 years ago
  • European Union

Panic at the chancellery

This is not a quarrel. Nor is it just one of those frequent moments in the Franco-German relationship when everything…

2 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

Military aid to Ukraine: the Belgian cavalry turns up late

Belgium has decided on a new military aid package for Ukraine worth €12 million. It includes heavy machine guns[i] and…

2 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

War: will the geopolitical crisis make the European Union stronger?

In global affairs, we are getting used to crises: if not a pandemic, then inflation, an energy crisis, refugees, or…

2 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

The rails of war: An EU railway initiative for the defence of Ukraine

The Ukrainian authorities recently launched a call for proposals to improve the country’s defence capabilities. Here is one that we…

2 years ago
  • European Union

It’s official. Brussels clarifies how sanctioned goods must go to Kaliningrad via Lithuania

The debate on the movement of EU-sanctioned goods from Russia to Kaliningrad has ended. The European Commission has clarified that…

2 years ago
  • Defence

The Kaliningrad Corridor: Moscow’s old dream and Lithuania’s great fear

Lithuania has found itself trapped in turmoil over the imposition of sanctions on some goods going to Kaliningrad. Russia is…

2 years ago
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Žalimas on sanctions against Kaliningrad: “I could see a certain lack of logic”

Dainius Žalimas, former President of the Constitutional Court, says he sees a lack of logic in the sanctions and a…

2 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

Andrius Kubilius. Europe’s geopolitical crisis: causes, lessons, consequences

Russia’s war against Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis for the entire European continent. It is the first such geopolitical…

2 years ago
  • European Union

MEP Andrius Kubilius. Europe’s geopolitical crisis: causes, lessons, consequences

Russia’s war against Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis for the entire European continent. It is the first such geopolitical…

2 years ago
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With the Conference on the Future of Europe, Europeans chose a new path: a stronger, more democratic and ready-to-act Europe

The last decade has shown that we cannot continue moving from one crisis to another. Europe must prevent crises rather…

2 years ago
  • European Union

From Franco-German motor to German-French condominium over the EU. A brief chronicle of the European Union’s Pétainisation

After the glory days of the Franco-German couple under Giscard and Schmidt and, in a more ambiguous mode, under Kohl-Mitterrand…

3 years ago
  • European Union

MEP Auštrevičius identifies the European Union’s homework on Ukraine

"We see that some leaders remain on the sidelines with their own views and policies, and continue to sink into…

3 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

MEP Kubilius. Can Ukraine join the European Union this year?

Ukraine is fighting a brutal war. A war started by a madman who is scared that Ukraine, having chosen and…

3 years ago
  • Energy

Gazprom and green deal: who will win? Gazprom is manipulating the deliveries of gas to European markets. Why?

Until the end of 2021, Gazprom was considered a reliable supplier of gas to Europe, or at least to the…

3 years ago