From the 1st of January 2022, Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea have been excluded from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). This program provides access to Sub-Saharan African nations to a duty free trade program. They have been excluded due to the fact that they breached a clause concerning human rights protection, good governance and transparency. Human rights, Good Governance …

Today’s international relations are characterised by the multipolarity of actors in the international system, with more and more countries influencing politics, security and economics. Eurasia has become a strategic region due to its economic potential and natural resources, which has led these countries to unite under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Initially formed in 2001 by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, …

The Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended the power of the Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble to hire and fire officials, causing an escalation of internal unrest in the Horn of Africa nation. The Prime Minister, accused to have stolen lands owned by the Somali National Army and to have interfered with a Defence Ministry’s investigation, will not be …

The past months have shown a significant increase in Gas prices in the Member States of the European Union, as well as globally. At this point, the natural gas prices have risen by a stable 400% since the same period last year, leaving the EU citizens baffled by the policies of the EU.             The EU holds that preventing gas …

In recent weeks, the tension between Russia and Ukraine has reached critical levels and that is the reason why the main actors involved have deployed their diplomatic means to try to find a peaceful solution. NATO’s aim is to open the negotiations in the early days of next year, in order to de-escalate and resolve tensions with Russia in a …

Despite progress in several areas of regional cooperation, the EU’s enlargement process remains slow. In the last seven years, the only progress was the European Council’s decision in March 2020 to open accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, but negotiations have not yet started, mainly due to the conditions imposed on Albania and Bulgaria’s veto on North Macedonia. In …

The seven years of conflict taking place in Yemen led to the worst humanitarian crisis. Around three hundred thousands people have died, including sixty percent of them from indirect causation to the conflict. A great majority of the population is relying on international aid and assistance. However, due to the war being at its full swing, the already non sufficient …

National Atlantic Treaty Organization has been leading a peace-support operation in Kosovo – the Kosovo Force – since June 1999. Kosovo Force was established when National Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 78-day air campaign against Milosevic’s regime, aimed at putting an end to violence in Kosovo, was over. Kosovo Force’s original objectives were to deter renewed hostilities, establish a secure environment and …

Kim Jong-Un, the globally-known North Korean leader, is the youngest of Kim Jong II’s three sons, but kinship wasn’t the only factor that linked the current ruler of North Korea to his father, he used to accompany him on military inspections at a very young age and as soon as he got older, it was thought that he worked either …

In these months, Vienna has been the scene of the negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. We are, in particular, witnessing the seventh round of negotiations that, during the last week, has reached a return to a constructive dialogue between the counterparts. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted in 2015, which originally included Russia, Iran, China, …