The issue of the recognition of the independence of Kosovo has been a challenge for the EU for more than a decade now. Still to this day, five Member States, naming Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain refuse to recognize Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence of 17 February 2008. However, it was in Spain v. Commission that, for the first …

 After weeks of increasing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, with media of the latter country claiming that the government of Kosovo is orchestrating an attack against the Kosovo Serbs in the State’s northern region, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic put the armed forces deployed along the border between the two States in the highest level of alert, making them ready to …

Hungary entered the EU through the great enlargement of the Union in 2004. Since then and for some time it was considered, together with Poland which was part of this group, the success story of European enlargement. All this, of course, at the time when the EU was prosperous before the financial crisis and the political austerity. When EU entered …

As Cas Mudde, professor of political science at the University of Georgia, stated, the victories of the Brothers of Italy and the Sweden Democrats has been the result of “at least two-decades-long process of what is the mainstream normalization of the far-right across Europe”. Joined by conspiracy’s theories against the national identity, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigration sentiment, far-right parties in Europe …

After the incident of last November, relations between France and Italy are tense and rocky. Migration and borders protection is a well-known issue between the two EU States, that from time to time brings to the surface diplomatic rows and tensions. Going backwards and analysing the whole contexts it is important to underline the delicate situation between France and Italy …

In recent years, the EU has tried to provide solutions to many of the problems that concern it, directly or indirectly. Despite the changes it has brought on internal issues during the economic crisis, migration flows, etc., it has not been able to find a solid solution for its policy in the Western Balkans. After the 2019 elections and with …

This article is an analysis of Qatari influence in Europe and why the influence Doha it poses a strategic challenge to EU open societies. However, one must first comprehend Qatar´s strategic plan and how it acts (and its foreign policy history) internationally. Qatar has consistently made use of its vast resources and stable autocratic Islamist regime with vast amount energy …

The election of Ms. Meloni as prime minister and the establishment of the far-right government in Italy, in connection with the harsh policy demonstrated by the Greek government in the Aegean, brings immigration for good back to the issues that will concern the EU in the coming months. The ongoing instability in Africa (mainly in the Sahel zone) and the …

The Sámis are European’s only recognised indigenous community residing in Sámi Country (Sápmi) which stretches across the northern parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula. The Sámis have faced decades of discrimination and assimilation. The Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian Constitutions has recognized certain rights of the group. Norway and Finland have advanced on this right and has …

Poland has given official form to its reparation demands on Germany at the beginning of October. Foreign Minister Rau signed a diplomatic note addressed to his German counterpart Baerbock. Shortly before a visit by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to Warsaw, Poland’s government has taken another step to lend weight to its reparations demands on Germany. “It expresses the Polish …