Vassilis Ntousas
Policy advisor
FEPS
A night to remember: a new dawn for Istanbul (and Turkey)
What are the reasons behind this result, which marked the ruling AK party’s biggest defeat in almost 20 years?
War in Libya: the battle for Tripoli and Europe’s responsibility
General Khalifa Haftar’s push to seize Tripoli by force brings Libya to the brink of war again. The EU needs to get its act together and use its undeniable leverage in the country to prevent a full-blown war and set […]
Iran: one notable leap for the EU, one insufficient step for the nuclear deal
It is also a signal of painful, but real readiness to break the long-established auto-pilot mode of operation in transatlantic relations.
BRI : Making the Belt and Road Initiative a Two-Way Street
Beijing is waking up to this widespread scepticism, seeing diminishing returns in promoting BRI as an exclusively ‘win-win’ strategy based on parity and mutual respect.
The time has PESCOme
The creation of PESCO, which has been often equated to the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ of the Lisbon Treaty has defied expectations.
The unbearable gravity of waiting
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has spanned decades but is any progress being made towards the much sought after two-state solution?
The Chaos Trumplifier
All the chaos showcased during his campaign has been amplified, having been infused with the most dangerous of all attributes: power.
FEPS post summit briefing: European Council, 22-23 June 2017
It is crucial that member states now deliver on the decisions taken.
The Great Call of China
A grand project that aims to weave much of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
The autocrat’s new clothes
The outcome of the April 16 referendum in Turkey ushers in one of the most, if not the most, radical transformation of the country since the proclamation of the republic in 1923. The electoral approval of a constitutional amendment package […]