Yaşar Aydın is a researcher at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor aimed to dismantle the ...

Anja Dargatz is the head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) regional office in Venezuela. She previously headed the FES offices in Baden-Württemberg, Bolivia and Sudan. She worked in the Peace ...

Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita since October 2024. He joined Rzeczpospolita in 2008 as head of the national department, later becoming deputy editor-in-chief. He won the Grand Press award in ...

Natasha Foote is a freelance journalist, podcaster and moderator specialising in EU agrifood policy. She previously worked as a journalist with the EU media EURACTIV, and before that spent several ...

Theo Rauch is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Development Studies at the Institute of Geography at the Free University of Berlin. His work in development policy has focused on the possibilities ...

Andreas Radtke represents the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Canberra for Australia and New Zealand. He previously worked for the German Foreign Office in Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as ...

Rotterdam’s fight against drug smuggling shows that public and private forces, when united, can set a new standard for European port security Has the Netherlands become a narco-state? This question ...

In the last 100 days, the deeply rooted and obsolete idea that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is still a natural US sphere of influence has been tested once more. President Donald Trump’s ...

In the UK, a supposedly progressive government is taking a leaf out of the right-wing playbook by slashing disability benefits What keeps you awake at night? For me, these days, however persistent the ...

Can universal values such as solidarity and justice be compatible with national interests — or are they inevitably at odds with each other? picture alliance / Ulrich Baumgarten The international ...

The Australian Labor Party’s spectacular victory in the 3 May elections may have been well-deserved, but was still unexpected in its scale. With Labor now holding around 90 of the 150 seats in the ...

On 18 March, Benjamin Netanyahu broke a truce established in Gaza days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Within hours, bombings had killed more than 400 people. He was thus ensuring his political ...