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Fears of hasty deal to bolster US president’s re-election prospects as EU sidelined Hashim Thaçi, the Kosovo president, marking Liberation Day on 11 June, the anniversary of Nato-led forces entering the country after the 1998-1999 conflict between Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and Serb forces. Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty The presidents of Kosovo and Serbia will meet […] More
Germany is the great latecomer in Western Europe. For much of its history, Germany was a territorial space occupied by dozens of autonomous political entities — kingdoms, principalities, duchies, margraviates, free cities. It was not until 1870 that Germany was united. By then, the world had largely been divided among Europe’s great powers. The German Empire […] More
EU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confrontation. The call for greater EU defence cooperation comes in a Franco-German joint paper and, although familiar, has been given added urgency by fears in the bloc that […] More
While celebrating the contribution of refugees, we must acknowledge the importance of all who are driven from their homelands not only by fear and terror, but also by desperate need. Human bridges and personal connections have been built by great movements across the globe as people escape war and persecution, hunger both for food and […] More
‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism Fiona Hill: ‘What I was most worried about was the toxicity of the issue of Russia.’ Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey […] More
On May 25, hours before George Floyd was killed in the US for all the world to watch, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner reacted to the public accusation by a celebrity that the French police were racist and capable of brutality in the execution of their duties. Hospitals Once Offered Charity — Now They Demand […] More
In a country rich in peculiarities, the Swiss city of Neuchâtel is a particular oddity. Today, Neuchâtel is the capital city of the eponymous canton, located in Romandy — the French-speaking region of Switzerland. This in itself is quite odd, given the fact that since the early 18th century, Neuchâtel belonged to Prussia. The city’s […] More
As the world continues to grapple with the implications of the COVID-19 crisis, including mass infection and death, a global economic downturn and the stigmatization of minority communities, the rush to reopen and “get back to work” weighs hard on world leaders. Along with vaccine development, contact tracing has been touted as a necessary tool […] More
