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This Game Can By Played by Two
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An analytical article entitled An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command, dealing with the transformations in the contemporary world, was posted on the website of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs in April 2026.
An Age of Liminality: Contradictions in Command
Despite widespread human rights violations, the European élite refuses, for some reason, to break a pact that grants Israelis access to business and more than a billion euros till 2027.
Is the Old World Fearful of the Promised Land? EU Stays Gutless to Act Against Israel
On 28 April 2026, a report entitled Justizreform, Wahlrecht, Premierato – Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens, about a reform of the Italian electoral system initiated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was posted on the website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation close to the Christian Democratic Union party of Germany.
Giorgia Melonis Reformagenda im politischen Labor Italiens
Cosmopolitanism and competition find their nemesis
How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise
A report prepared by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and entitled Why and How Europeans Must Prepare for US Retrenchment examines two scenarios for the implementation of the U.S. policy of restraint and their possible implications for Europe.
Why and How Europeans Must Prepare for US Retrenchment
In a policy brief by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Nikola Xaviereff, project manager for the Western Balkans in DGAP’s Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, expresses the opinion that Europe is now at quite an uneasy and telling stage of enlargement: everyone understands the geopolitical need to admit new members, but all show deep-seated hesitancy, institutional fatigue and fear of their own ambitions instead of taking decisive action.
EU Enlargement in Transition: Montenegro at the Frontline
On 13 to 17 April, the Atlantic Council held its regular meeting of finance ministers, heads of central banks, and IMF and World Bank representatives. Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau spoke and answered questions at the meeting.
Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau: ‘Europe and America will either win together or fall together’
On April 17, 2026, Foreign Policy Research Institute published at its web-site an article by Robert Beck. The author analyses the consequences of Orban’s defeat and victory of the Hungarian Tisza party in this month’s election in the country. He believes that it is not only the foreign policy of Budapest that is at stake.
Illusion of Turning the Tables
An ECFR publication of 16 April 2026 authored by Jeremy Cliffe, the organization’s editorial director, deals with how Brussels should shape its relations with Budapest now that Viktor Orbán is on his way out.
Leverage Without Guarantees
Targeted himself by the Israel lobby for antisemitism, Professor John Keane analyses the nature of Zionist revenge.
Zionists, lawfare and the malady called revenge
When crisis strikes, we divide, and division breeds inaction. This is the general understanding about Europe’s role in the world. But a look at events in the Middle East suggests that this is not always the case. Europe is more paralyzed than divided over the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
A Ruthless Diagnosis. Europe More Paralyzed than Divided
On April 8 2026, the Breugel Institute (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) web-site published a policy brief Risks for Europe of US dominance of global asset management on the risks of growing influence of US asset management companies in the EU.
Risks for Europe of US dominance of global asset management