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The meaning of last Turkish local elections from two Turkish perspectives
Last Turkish local elections of 30th March ended up with a renewed victory for the AKP party which gained around 48% expressed suffrages. This result took…
Egypt, Turkey and Iran: exchanging roles in a tumultuous Middle East
After less than a year of exceptional Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement, the events of June 30, 2013 ruptured this relationship. Similarly, when Egyptian and…
European Parliament election: do we need a new path rather than a new majority?
Over 413 million people from 28 European countries will be called to decide, in less than a month, the conformation that the European Parliament will take on…
What’s up in the EU elections?
by Andrew Rettman BRUSSELS - Russia is rolling out two major projects – a gas pipeline and a Crimea deep water port – with China, as EU countries and the US…
Libya’s problem could be its solution
On the 15th of April, the Jordan ambassador to Libya, Fawaz Artan, has been kidnapped in Tripoli, resulting the last example of Libyan instability. European…
Libya, recent trends and problems to solve in order to achieve security and stability
These days Libya is experiencing strong instability due to a number of factors: the signal that the institution-building process started with the end of the…
The Migrants’ Files: surveying migrants’ deaths at Europe’s door
BRUSSELS - A tide of humanity — people on the run from Africa, the Middle East and Asia — is washing over Europe’s boundaries, and many don’t survive the…
Euro-Mediterranean energy integration can solve possible problems with the Russian Federation?
During the last two weeks the European press is discussing about the possible problems deriving from the interruption (or decreasing) of Russian gas supplies…
Clashes in Madrid, where austerity still hurts
“Los indignados” was the name given to the protesters gathered in the Spanish capital Madrid May 15, 2011. That name has been accompanying for years every…
Social media ban in Turkey: what does it change in terms of the country’s ‘status’?
More or less a week before Turkish local elections, Prime Minister Rayed Erdoğan decided to put a ban on Twitter owing to a court’s decision which…