Sweden saw itself as an open country, a humanitarian world power. Now that the right-wing populists gained influence on the government for the first time, the new prime minister bears a great responsibility. The Swedish prime minister has initiated the change of power with her withdrawal. That’s how it’s been done for a long time, and that’s how it’s always …

According to a report from the European Parliament, Hungary is challenging the fundamental values of the EU treaties. However, the EU is partly to blame by letting it slide for too long. Hungary is no longer a full-fledged democracy. Instead, conditions in the central European country have deteriorated so much that it has become an “electoral autocracy”, according to a …

On June 30, an intense diplomatic sequence ended, with an European Council meeting, a G7 summit and then a NATO summit. These events were an opportunity to reaffirm the unity of the Western side, despite existing differences. In the short term, these three summits have reaffirmed the great overall cohesion that has existed since the beginning of the war in …

Because many things in Hungary can only be decided by a two-thirds majority, Viktor Orbán does  not concentrate all his attention to centrist voters when courting support. The result is almost inevitably populism. The good(ish) news first. There will be no exit of Hungary from the EU, not with Viktor Orbán, who, on the contrary, is preparing for a stronger …

Since November 2021, Congolese forces have been battling a resurgence of the M23 rebel group in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Though one of over 100 non-state armed militias currently active in eastern DRC, the recent reemergence of M23 has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation and contributed to a rapid deterioration in …

With only 10 weeks until the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, political experts from both parties say their expectations from just months prior are changing. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 Senate seats, and 36 gubernatorial seats are up for election in November, and the fate of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and a potential comeback by former …

In a worrying but strangely unsurprising turn of events, the last weeks of August and the beginning of September have seen the explosion of a major political crisis and violent clashes in Iraq. The breakdown of the Parliament and the subsequent taking to the streets of supporters of the different prominent figures of the Iraqi political scene was predictable: the …

Italy’s role and reputation on the international stage have been unstable – to say the least. The rapid alternation of coalition governments and their inability to come to full term, as well as the long history of scandals and criminal activity tied to the political elites have often made the country a laughingstock for its European neighbours and the rest …

Tigray, Ethiopia, is currently witnessing the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history, and half the world has not even heard about it. The region has been destabilized since November 2020, when the conflict between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Government of Ethiopia began. The ongoing conflict has killed thousands and internally displaced millions of Ethiopians. An estimated 59,000 …

The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania said they were in favor of granting Ukraine immediate official status as a candidate for European Union membership. Shortly afterwards, the European Commission announced on June 17 that it had validated Ukraine’s application for membership. This declaration is a very strong message from three major Western European countries and Romania in favor …