Category: 3. Europe

President Trump is committed to ending the Russia-Ukraine war and to a resolution that leads to a lasting peace, not just a temporary pause. This Monday, February 24, will mark three years of…

A few weeks ago, I warned that the second Trump administration might be squandering the tolerance and good will that Washington had long received from the world’s major democracies. Instead of seeing the United States as a mostly…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

This is the third instalment in a four-part blog series documenting EFF’s work in Europe. You can read additional posts here: 

EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world….

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…

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…