A “New” Pact on Migration and Asylum?
Sept. 9, 2020, the over-crowded Moria Camp was destroyed by a fire, leaving 13,000 migrants without shelter. The European Commission, ...
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How the EU Can Achieve its Bold New Climate Target
European leaders agreed on December 11, 2020 to slash the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% below 1990 ...
Youth Take Charge of Climate Activism, but to What Avail?
When a case in 2018 led by six Portuguese youth became the first climate-related lawsuit filed by the European court ...
Energy Charter Treaty Reform Gives Strong Political Signal
While a recent amendment on fossil fuel investments is a promising sign that a modernized Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) could spur more ...
Belarus Protests: Striving for Democratic Change Outside the East-West Paradigm
As protests continue in Belarus following the August election, I approached Dimitar Dermendzhiev, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Consultant. He has ...
EU’s Historic Agreement on COVID-19 Recovery Fund: Towards a more Sustainable Future
Updated July 24, 2020 The EU's 27 reached a historic agreement on the COVID-19 Recovery Fund, an unrepeatable occasion to ...
Is Brexit a Defeat for Europe?
The judgment is out, Brexit is a defeat for Europe and the European project. And for America too. It will ...
The heavy hitters of the new EU Commission
Ursula Von Der Leyen walked into the European scene in early July 2019 as she was proposed by the European ...
A New Italian Political Crisis – Echoes Salvini’s Rise
The political climate in Italy has been heated for the last 14 months after the 2018 Italian election resulted in ...
Europe’s Centrality to the Circular Economy
Lacking the expansive resource endowments and sheer size of continents like North America, Australia, and Africa, Europe has always been ...
Working Towards a Cleaner Ocean: An Interview with Fabienne McLellan from OceanCare
The Impakter team, deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives in the airplane crash near Addis Ababa, joins the Secretary-General ...
Rising China vs. Dominant America: How Likely is a War?
Will a rising China inevitably clash against a dominant America and put an end to the “American century”? How likely ...
