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It is the first time the EU has challenged a trade investigation at the initial stage and comes after months of trade tensions over the EU’s investigation into imports of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) from China, launched last October. A final decision in that case is expected within days.

EU Commission challenges China dairy probe at WTO

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The European Commission has launched consultations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against an ongoing investigation by the Beijing authorities

The question remains whether Armenia and Azerbaijan can normalize relations after so much bitterness.

Armenia and Azerbaijan: A Fragile Peace Process

By: EBR | Thursday, September 19, 2024

Azerbaijan is in a dominant position as negotiations drag on with Armenia on normalizing relations

But Putin has never given a clear explanation as to how NATO’s expansion and Ukraine’s possible membership might be a threat to Russia.

Deciphering Putin’s NATO Blame Game

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to argue that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was justified

While Ankara had so far managed to contain the negative impact of its deteriorating relations with NATO allies and to benefit from its ambiguous positioning toward Russia, it may now find it has become more dependent on Moscow.

Turkey’s Foreign Policy Ambitions Meet Reality

By: EBR | Friday, September 13, 2024

With its foreign policy maneuvering space increasingly constrained, Turkey’s hedging between its NATO allies and Russia will be harder to maintain

The EU’s interest will be to sidestep the US-led drift towards confrontation with China while rebalancing Europe’s dependence on transatlantic trade and investment in favour of emerging giants in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The EU needs a ’carrot and stick’ policy for handling Russia

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 10, 2024

When Ursula von der Leyen steps down from her second term at the European Commission, it’s far from certain that Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping will still be in power

This is quite a strange situation for Israelis, who have been traditionally accustomed to short campaigns: In six days only in 1967, Israel had defeated the armed forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and now it doesn’t seem to be able to defeat a relatively small terror organization using tactics of guerrilla warfare.

Israel’s longest war

By: EBR | Monday, September 9, 2024

The war in Gaza has been raging for almost a year now – longer than any previous Israeli-Arab war since 1948

“This is not the strategy, by Ankara, to replace the West, but it’s a strategy to strengthen relations with non-Western powers at a time when the US hegemony is waning,” said Sinan Ulgen, head of the Istanbul-based think tank EDAM.

NATO member Turkey to request membership of Russia-led BRICS

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Turkey will be the first NATO member to request membership of the BRICS economic bloc spearheaded by the leaders of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping

Iran is the 17th-biggest state in the world and the second-largest nation in the Middle East with an area of 1,648,195 km2.

Iran in Context

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Modern Iran’s roots go back to one of the world’s most ancient civilizations. How does it compare to the contemporary Middle East?

And if left unchallenged and uncorrected, Beijing’s false claims will not only alter the status quo across the Taiwan Strait but also jeopardize peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and threaten the rules-based international order.

To secure peace in the Indo-Pacific, include Taiwan in the UN system

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Taiwan is an indispensable partner in global supply chains, producing more than 90 percent of the world’s high-end semiconductors

Despite all her momentum, it is still a toss-up.

Kamala Harris Has Momentum… But Still Faces An Uphill Fight

By: EBR | Monday, August 26, 2024

Will Kamala Harris win this election and become the U.S.’s first female President?

The Taiwan Strait is a major trade route through which about half of global container ships pass, and both the United States and Taiwan say it’s an international waterway.

German warships await orders on crossing Taiwan Strait

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Two German warships await orders from Berlin, their commander said, to determine whether next month they will be the first German naval vessels in decades to pass through the Taiwan Strait, drawing a rebuke from Beijing

The official’s comments indicated that US intelligence agencies expect foreign actors to refocus their influence operations on Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden endorsed as the Democratic Party standard bearer.

Foreign actors seek to influence US presidential race, says intelligence officer

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 31, 2024

US foes targeting November’s election with influence operations are expected to adapt to presidential contest developments, a US intelligence official said

It is no surprise that the Kremlin’s political unreliability has often concerned exactly those Russian obligations that were critical for the accords to make any sense.

Russia-Ukraine: Could an Istanbul Deal Have Brought Peace?

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 30, 2024

There are those who believe that Moscow’s signing of a document at Istanbul in 2022 might have resulted in temporary lowering of tensions in Russia’s war in Ukraine

At this point, perhaps the Democrats’ best hope to turn things around may well be Trump’s penchant for extreme arrogance and, for that reason, his inability to focus on maintaining a winning hand.

Will Trump Become a Victim of His Own Success?

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 24, 2024

For the Democrats in the United States, things have been looking bleak

Orban was greeted at the airport by Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, according to a photo the nationalist leader posted on social media platform X.

Hungary PM Orban in Beijing on ‘Peace mission 3.0’

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Beijing for a visit he branded as a “Peace mission 3.0” after recent trips to Moscow and Kyiv

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was bitterly disappointed at last year’s NATO summit in Vilnius when the alliance ducked the membership issue, instead establishing special NATO-Ukraine formats, knows his country will not be admitted anytime soon.

Ukraine, Not Trump, Is NATO’s Achilles’ Heel

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 9, 2024

NATO has a few worries as its leaders meet on July 9-11 in Washington for a summit marking the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary

Fragmented and poorly coordinated European efforts are proving a recipe for failures that both continents will come bitterly to regret. The Global Gateway acknowledges the EU’s need to up its game, but falls short of doing so.

Forget old-style EU aid to Africa, concentrate on energy and food

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Africa’s needs are bottomless, but they should also be seen as lungs that could breathe new life into flagging European economies

Nasrallah said his Iran-backed group had been informed that Israel could use airports and bases in Cyprus if Hezbollah struck Israeli airports.

Hezbollah threatens war against Cyprus if Nicosia keeps helping Israel

By: EBR | Thursday, June 20, 2024

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned “no place” in Israel would be spared in case of full-blown war against the Lebanese group, and threatened Cyprus if it opened its airports to Israel

If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030 – up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

Muslims: A Global Perspective

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Muslims make up around a quarter of the world’s population. What are the facts?

Indeed, Egypt has been a European partner for the better part of several millennia, as little of European history can dispense with the ancient civilisation which has been both a progenitor of many elements of European civilisation as well as a trade and economic partner for most of European history.

A Case For Closer Cooperation With Egypt

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Writing over at Foreign Affairs, Stephen Kotkin stresses that powers such as China and Russia do not necessarily see themselves as characters in Shaw’s Pygmalion

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