Region: Europe

Sluggish growth results in a widening GDP gap with the US and increases existential risks for the EU within the changing globalisation paradigm

It would be a gross mistake to consider the changes to the nuclear doctrine as a response to the Ukraine crisis alone

We are at the earliest stages of getting a sense of what changing international reality may bring us

Neither states nor churches operate in isolation from the political and ethical fabric of the global community that determines what actions and statements are deemed acceptable

The international community has to continue its search not for an elusive general consensus on the desirable world order, but rather for attainable compromises on specific matters

Stability and predictability turned out to be an illusion

The possibility of Lapland becoming a central NATO stronghold in Northern Europe would be a new major chapter in the alliance's “Arctic pivot”.

It would be unrealistic to expect that the future world order will be free of conflict. The world will retain its diversity, with different potentials of countries and their competition

How the successes of the far right and far left will affect politics in the EU’s most powerful state

The motives of the visit are more symbolic than substantial, as New Delhi desires to ascertain whatever role it could play in the Ukrainian peace process

The process and regimes of arms control reduce the threat of war between participating countries. However, they cannot by themselves dictate their entire foreign policy, which is shaped by many other factors

It is difficult to imagine that a new system of global and regional security can be based on the “good old” European principles