Russia’s information war against NATO and EU member Romania is delivered with both the accuracy of a twenty-first century guided munition and hurled in scatter-shot ways in the…
Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania’s communist dictator executed by firing squad on December 25, 1989, “lived and died like a lion,” proclaimed a January 2020 Sputnik-Moldova column, demonstrating that fiction…
Currently, the most widespread approach to the constitutional review of legislation in European countries is the Kelsenian model of centralized review. In the US system of diffuse review, every level…
A photo that surfaced from January’s Berlin Conference on Libya shows an intense discussion between prominent heads of state—among them Angela Merkel, Emmanuel…
In the past few years, a number of European banks have been implicated in money laundering scandals in countries such as Cyprus, Malta, Latvia, and, most recently, Scandinavia. Although European…
The Soma Mine Disaster (SMD) was the most massive mine disaster of the twenty-first century, with 301 fatalities. This was due to a mine fire in an underground coal…
On November 18, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service welcomed former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Richard Morningstar for a conversation on energy security in the Caspian region. Prior…
In the wake of Boris Johnson’s seizure of power, Brexit has re-entered the international conversation. The United Kingdom’s future seems no clearer than it was on the day Brexit was…
The Leave side’s message in the United Kingdom’s referendum on European Union membership was simple: “take back control.” In more formal terms, this amounted to reasserting national sovereignty that was…
This fall will be a crucial test for democracy in Poland. The country will hold parliamentary elections on October 13. The critical question is whether the ruling populist Law and…
