On 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed another historic win to the Sahrawi national liberation movement, known as Polisario Front, in its struggle to

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As Europe’s governments survey Sudan’s bitter and brutal civil war, they can be forgiven for seeing few immediate opportunities for diplomatic breakthroughs. The conflict looks grimly intractable, and other actors

On 4 October EU member states voted in favour of imposing tariffs of up to 45 per cent on Chinese electric vehicles for at least five years. The topic was

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Summary Viktor Orban has seized control of nearly all the levers of power in Hungary since he became prime minister in 2010, effectively turning the country into an electoral autocracy.

In the James Bond film Spectre, the protagonist’s arch-villain Blofeld stands in his secret desert base surrounded by well-armed cronies and banks of computers. He looks at agent 007 malevolently

Summary Europe’s global influence as a technology regulator is not matched in its overall digital power, where it lags far behind the US and China and is highly reliant on

Just 25 kilometres south of the Bulgarian city of Varna lies the Kamchia health resort. The complex, which borders a stunning Black Sea beachfront, boasts sports facilities, conference halls –

Earlier this month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told an audience of 51 African leaders that China’s ties with their continent were the “best in history”. Indeed, at the China-Africa summit,

The first-ever summit between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council takes place on 16 October in Brussels. In recent years, GCC countries have become ever-more important geopolitical actors

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