‘Vaccine Nationalism’ Is Relatively in Order, and the EU Has Handled It Much Better than the US
Ardent criticism of “vaccine nationalism” has been prominent in the “international community” (that old cliché still largely boiling down to
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Ivan Dikov is a Bulgarian journalist and author. He studied political science / international relations and history at Dartmouth College and later in Sofia, in the Eastern Balkans. He’s served for five years as the editor-in-chief of Bulgaria’s largest English-language media – Novinite.com. As a freelancer, he has collaborated with media from the US, the UK, Germany, and Australia.
Barnier’s Unprecedented Call for Suspending Non-EU Immigration to France Warrants Dwelling Upon
Michel Barnier, a very high-profile EU and French politician, until recently the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, among others, has called
Uighur Sanctions Finally Show EU’s Rough Awakening on China as a ‘Responsible Stakeholder’
For many years now, a major diplomatic collision between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China had been
The EU Shouldn’t Beat Itself Up over 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War: That’s Its Ultimate Power Projection Challenge
There were a lot of bad news for the European Union during the five-week Nagorno-Karabakh War in the fall of
Germany Can’t Have Its (Navalny) Integrity and Build Its (Nord Stream 2) Pipeline Too
It’s been centuries now and Germany, the supposed leader of the democratic supranational European Union, still can’t seem to figure
The EU Helped Create the Erdogan of Today. Why the Shock and Awe over Sofagate?
Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan frequently makes global news headlines. That is only to be expected from the leader of a
EU Has Handled the COVID-19 Pandemic Well, Like Any Other Crisis It Wasn’t Built For
Bashers, haters, and doomsayers for the EU seem to be among the most constant, resilient, and determined actors in the
Bulgaria’s Veto on North Macedonia’s EU Talks: Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing of the 1990s Former Yugoslavia Type
The 1990s were a happy time for international peace due to the end of the Cold War between the US-led
The EU Survived Trump. Now It’s Gotta Survive Biden
Can you believe it: at this time four years ago, in November 2016, the world had sort-of ended according to
Trump Was Good for the EU. Too Bad the EU Didn’t Take Advantage
Somehow Donald J. Trump seems to be on his way out of the White House some time by early 2021.
Navalny Urges EU to Target Key Figures Backing Putin
Recently poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged the European Union to use tough sanctions in order to target