When Russian troops rolled into Ukraine three years ago, they brought their parade uniforms with them on the push to Kyiv. President Vladimir Putin expected a quick victory.
What Putin dubbed the “special military…
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Behind the Lines: Russia’s Struggle to Colonize Ukraine
Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainians living under occupation are holding onto their identities and continuing to hope for liberation from their imperialist oppressors.
“They held me for two and a half days,…
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Double speed: What Merz and a German right-turn would mean for Europe
Two things will alter Europe’s political future. First is the rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the high likelihood of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)’s Friedrich Merz as the…
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Trump, Ukraine, and the End of the Postwar World
For eight decades, America’s alliances with other democracies have been the bedrock of American foreign policy, trade policy, and cultural influence. American investments in allies’ security helped keep the peace in formerly unstable parts of…
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A dataset for monitoring agricultural drought in Europe
The CDI assumes that the development of agricultural drought is a top-down (hierarchical) linear process, where a shortage of precipitation (Watch stage) triggers declining soil moisture conditions (Warning stage) which, in turn, promotes…
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In the era of Trump tariffs, Turkey should look to the European Union
Perhaps the most successful outcome of Turkey’s decades-long Western vocation has been the integration of its economy into the global trade and financial systems. Liberal market policies that were implemented starting in the early 1980s…
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what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe
Donald Trump is famous for his attacks on journalists and the media. He has banned critical reporters from official events, threatened them with lawsuits, and branded mainstream outlets the “enemy of the people”. Since last year, the US…
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Europe’s energy information problem
Institutions established in support of the European Energy Union
In 2009, the EU adopted rules – known as the Third Energy Package – aimed at further liberalising energy markets and deepening integration. Among other measures,…
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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers | Life expectancy
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.
The average annual growth in life expectancy…
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US figures do not support Trump claims on Ukraine spending
President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated a claim that the United States has spent $350 billion on Ukraine’s war — a figure that far eclipses the amount recorded by the Department of Defense and the interagency oversight group that tracks…
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