Only a Comprehensive Approach Will Solve Mediterranean Migration
Ad hoc and punitive approaches to Mediterranean migration are doomed to fail. Only a comprehension and cooperative approach based on mutual respect and shared responsibility can prevail. The Mediterranean Migration Forum (TMMF) is just that.
With Friends Like This: Russia and Turkey Fall Out over Idlib
Reprisal attacks against the Syrian government and renewed refugee flows into Europe are just two of the potential consequences of a deadly airstrike on Turkish troops in Idlib.
Italy Returns to the Horn of Africa
After a three-decade absence from the Horn of Africa, Italy is re-engaging with the region – and its ambitions go well beyond the issue of migration.
Germany: CDU Hopefuls Vie for Merkel’s Spot
As one era draws to a close, the CDU leadership race teases a new one.
Backgrounder: Sweden Elections 2018
Upcoming elections are being billed as a fight for the country’s soul, but this is one battle that’s likely to end in stalemate.
Italy’s Diplomacy Is Floundering in the Mediterranean
In its singular focus on migration, Italy’s Mediterranean policy misses the forest for the trees.
Sweden’s Coming Crisis Could Soon be Europe’s
Will Sweden be the next electoral pick-up for Europe’s far right?
Spain: The Final Test Case for Social Democracy in the EU
Pedro Sanchez and the PSOE must find a workable solution to the migration issue; the future of social democracy in Europe may depend on it.
Is Libya the Unlikely Solution to the Franco-Italian Migration Spat?
Stabilizing Libya to stem the flow of migrants to European shores may be the one thing that Rome and Paris can actually agree on.
Whither Central Europe’s ‘Axis of the Willing’ on Migration?
Will Sebastian Kurz’ “axis of the willing against illegal migration” sound the death knell for the Merkel era in Germany?