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The Mercosur Standoff: Why Italy’s Caution is a Call for Strategic Trade, Not Isolation
As the European Union moves towards the finish line of a 25-year diplomatic marathon, a significant hurdle has emerged from Rome. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's recent declaration that the EU-Mercosur …
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The Mercosur Standoff: Why Italy’s Caution is a Call for Strategic Trade, Not Isolation
As the European Union moves towards the finish line of a 25-year diplomatic marathon, a significant hurdle has emerged from…
A Treaty of Peace and Unity: Indigenous Diplomacy Enters a New Era
This month, after a year of negotiations of which I had the distinct honor of serving as chief negotiator and Ambassador-at-Large for…
From Spears to Soft Power: How Thermopylae Became a Public Diplomacy Hub
Greece (Brussels Morning) For decades, Greece struggled to articulate a clear sense of identity, a living continuity between its historical culture and…
Turkey’s EU Path and the Peace Process
Turkiye (Brussels Morning) Turkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has again renewed overtures toward the Kurdish political movement, a…
CO₂ Standards for Cars: Last Chance to Get the Fundamentals Right
In the days ahead, the Commission will present the revision of the CO₂ standards, the most consequential part of the…
Imperial SCOTUS and Its Narcissistic Vision for Itself
I am not a legal analyst like the inimitable and profound Stephen Vladeck. But the Supreme Court of the United…
Central Europe’s Opportunity in Lagarde’s Wake-Up Call
In a Frankfurt hall on November 21, as Christine Lagarde delivered her keynote at the European Banking Congress, something remarkable happened - or rather, something…
Strategic Political Analysis of the Brussels High-Level Summit
Unified Stance of Afghanistan’s Democratic Opposition & Coordination with European, International, and Afghan Representatives, Global Significance, Political Imperatives & the…