The fundament of the West’s rule of law promising equality before the law to every citizen of a liberal-democratic state has been the idea of the emancipation of the individual from subordinating oneself to a group and being subjugated by restrictive customs, laws and authorities (Ball, 2021). Basic rights include the freedom of thought, belief, political opinion as well as …

Historical Analysis The United Kingdom has been during a significant period in history one of the main powers in the globe, with a vast empire, which extended to an approximate one-quarter of the world’s land surface. During this time Britain also enjoyed a position as one of the most important military powers, as they counted with the biggest navy in …

The ongoing diplomatic incident in the Ceuta’s enclave is a genuine stress test for the migration policy of the European Union. The management of the EU-Morocco –or yet Spain-Morocco- border relies on an externalised principle which consists in the management by an external third state of migration and surveillance of the said border. Last week, Morocco allowed some 9,000 migrants …

Georgia is located on the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It lays at the eastern end of the Black Sea, with Turkey and Armenia to the south, Azerbaijan to the east, and Russia to the north, over the Caucasus Mountains.The capital and largest city of Georgia is Tbilisi. Georgia’s total territory covers 69,700 square kilometers (26,911 sq mi). Its approximate population is …

Since 2014 a difficult relationship between the European Union and the Russian Federation turned sour over the fate of Ukraine. With the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula hosting the bulge of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the support given to separatist militias in the far Eastern parts of Ukraine in the Donbas region, Moscow had shown its resolve to …

Ukraine’s geopolitical location between the EU and the Russian Federation bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian region and its richness in energy resources, especially in natural gas reserves as well as a large potential for hydro and biomass energy, make it an attractive partner for Europe. Current developments on the front of the Ukrainian government’s fight against corruption …

The social field constitutes the nemesis of the European Union since its creation. As the preserve of the member states, the EU is struggling to implement a real social policy. Being above all an economic union based on a single market and freedom of movement, a paradox soon appears. Indeed, this is very difficult to imagine the organisation of a …

The European Commission has recently put forward two proposals that would lead to ground-breaking legislation on the so-called “Big Tech”. On the one hand, the first proposal that European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager made was the Digital Services Act (DSA), which will target how these big companies operate, in other words, the European Union plans to use the DSA to …

 By Alvaro Perez Cardenes, The European Institute for International Law and International Relations. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented crisis in our lifetimes. Governments have had to place strict lockdowns, where non-essential shops have been closed; curfews have been set and even like in the case of Spain, and the population have had to endure several months of confinement, where …

The relations between China and Europe has been fostered since the since the second century BC, when the China’s Emperor exchanged silk for “celestial horses of Ferghana” to maintain his army (Boulnois, 2010). Even if the silk trade was forbidden outside of the Middle Kingdom, such traffic allowed the worlds of East and West to meet through the creation of …