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The free movement of people is one of the most emblematic achievements of the European project. It has transformed a divided continent into an open space where citizens can travel, work, and study without borders. But while physical barriers have fallen, policies — especially on security, immigration, and organized crime — remain mostly national. The […]

The conflict in Ukraine has now become the mirror of a geopolitical transition that redefines not only the military balance on the ground, but also transatlantic power relations and Europe ‘s ability to conceive of itself as an autonomous strategic actor. More than three years after the large-scale invasion, it is increasingly evident that the […]

“Russia will no longer publish any demographic data. From now on, it is a state secret‘. It was with this lapidary sentence that Nona Mikhelidze, senior fellow at the Institute of International Affairs, gave voice on X to a piece of news that passed quietly but had deflagrating potential. On 2 July, Rosstat released a […]

Belgrade, Saturday 28 June. Some peaceful demonstrators are chased by the police, others brutally beaten after an afternoon of non-violent protests. What happened on Saturday is not an isolated incident. Since that tragic 1 November, when the collapse of a station shelter in Novi Sad claimed 16 lives, Serbia has been paralysed. Young people are […]

While diplomats search for loopholes, the conflict in Ukraine is increasingly moving towards a phase of strategic stalemate and head-on collision. The air attack on the night of 3 to 4 July, one of the most serious in 2025, hit six of Kyiv’s ten districts, causing at least 26 injuries, damage to health facilities, residential […]

In the contemporary narrative, especially in the media, it has become almost a conditioned reflex to ‘explain’ the decisions of authoritarian or unconventional leaders through the prism of mental pathology. Failure to understand a strategy is tantamount to declaring it senseless, ill, outside rationality. But this is a classic cognitive fallacy: the mind projection fallacy, […]