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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read this interview in German. You’ve just returned from Colombia. What is the situation in the country ahead of the presidential elections on 27 May? Unfortunately, the situation isn’t as hopeful as ...

The developments in Venezuela are deeply troubling. For that very reason, the region can no longer afford to look the other ...

The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor aimed to dismantle the opposition. Instead, it united over 13 million citizens in political ...

Israel’s new offensive in Gaza is leading to famine and mass displacement. Germany cannot stand idly by for any longer ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

Read this article in German or Russian. In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that ...

With the disappointment of the 2023 counteroffensive and the shift to a brutal attritional war, the mood has darkened in the pro-Ukrainian information space. The West’s dramatic isolation over the ...

The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.