Vassilis Ntousas
Policy advisor
FEPS
One notable step for Europe, one (likely) insufficient step for the JCPOA: Europe, INSTEX and beyond
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 […]
The upending of American politics and the chance for Europe
After a bruising 18-month election cycle, the election of Donald Trump as the President of the USA sent shockwaves across the world. Trump sensed that for the first time in living memory there was greater fear of the American institutional […]