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Recognizing Afghanistan’s extremist leaders will fuel radicalism Nearly four years after the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan, Moscow has formally recognized the Taliban regime as the legitimate government of Afghanistan—a move that has been welcomed by China. Moscow’s decision is an invitation for other states in the region, from China to...

Zagreb’s push for segregation puts the future of democratic Bosnia at risk. You would be hard-pressed to find a country where a random midsized city in the American Midwest is mentioned more often than New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined—unless you’re in Bosnia. Ever since November 1995, when the...

How the gas lobby is ensuring that European countries remain dependent on natural gas, even if it means slowing down the energy transition.

An investigation by Shadowgroup. To set up their investment funds, asset-management companies such as Eurizon (a subsidiary of Intesa SanPaolo), are using indexes that regularly include fossil-fuel companies. Exploiting loopholes in European regulations, they can thus sell "green" funds that in reality are anything but. The solution? Tougher rules. When...

The coastal waters of Öland, an island located off the Swedish coast, are periodically covered by algal bloom. The problem is not only aesthetic: they can be poisonous. This is a problem that affects the entire Baltic Sea and calls into question European agricultural policies and what it prioritises. land...

The U.S. Army and its NATO allies are embarking on the execution of a new “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” plan that aims to enhance ground-based capabilities and drive military-industrial interoperability across the alliance, the U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander said Wednesday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s inaugural...

Eurojust has announced the neutralization of the hacker group NoName057(16), which was behind numerous DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure throughout Europe. Additionally, EU authorities have issued seven arrest warrants and publicly released information on five suspects. According to The Agency, all of them are Russian citizens, and two are heads...

The regime is probing to see if the West will make concessions. There are good grounds for skepticism. The release from jail of the opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski and five other Belarusian political prisoners in June offered a rare moment of hope in a country that has had few reasons...

As the US wages a sustained campaign against the court, Europe seems ambivalent about its response. Two tweets, sent five months apart, provide a stark illustration of falling support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the face of US sanctions against it. The first was sent by Slovenia, after...

The British government under Keir Starmer has committed to investing 14.2 billion pounds (around 16.8 billion euros) in the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear plant on England's east coast. According to estimates the project will take around ten years to complete. There have been major delays in the construction...