Europe

  Jakarta/Indonesia (8/5- 3.33).    On April 29, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs formally labelled Papua’s armed criminal organization (KKB), also known as the West Papua...

    Moscow (8/5-40).    China and Russia have conducted a series of military exercises in the brutal cold of the Siberian mountains, just as both countries' tensions...

  (Brussels 25/4 – 57.14). In the times of a global infodemic, misleading information, conspiracy theories and outright lies seem ubiquitous. It would be almost tempting to see disinformation as an unpleasant...

  Brussels (7/5-14.29).         On April 19, the European Union adopted its long-awaited strategy for the Indo-Pacific, formally the “EU Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.”...

  Brussels (27/4 - 20).      The renowned independent Levada polling institute presented 21 April a survey on the major fears of Russians(opens in a new tab)....

    Washington (26/4 – 36.36).   Last week, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told the Senate Intelligence Committee that DIA has no idea why Russian...

  Vienna (10/4-33.33).         Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orbán and Mateusz Morawiecki have a dream. On April 1st, it is Maundy Thursday and only a few days...

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday (4 March) that Europe’s defence depends on close transatlantic bonds and not on a quest for the continent’s strategic...

    Vienna (9/3 - 60).      In November 2020, the former ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch provided an op-ed about the confused Austrian foreign policy following the firing...

  Bavaria is set to be placed under the strictest coronavirus measures in Germany from Wednesday, including local curfews in hotspots and partial school closures. The southern region, with...