Alexis Tsipras must fully commit to Greece’s bailout agreement in both letter and spirit. The popularity of Greece’s radical left-wing Syriza party is on the decline. In January, polls showed that support for Syriza—which struck a power-sharing agreement with the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) party after romping to victory in January 2015...
In Poroshenko’s Ukraine, politics and justice are often mixed. In the early morning darkness of October 31, Gennady Korban opened his door to find a group of imposing men in black balaclavas staring down at him. A state special investigator emerged from the group with a binder and proceeded to...
An upcoming referendum threatens the unity of the Dayton Accords on the 20th anniversary. Dayton was “a superb agreement to end a war but a very bad agreement to make a state.” This is how former High Representative to Bosnia Paddy Ashdown described the Dayton Accords that brought peace to Bosnia in 1995....
The European Union looks to strengthen Ukraine’s energy security, but Brussels forgets to put its house in order first. On July 15, when the European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic met with representatives of ENGIE, OMV and Europe’s other gas companies, all eyes were on Ukraine. The meeting to discuss the country’s gas supplies...
Providing Ukraine with military support will be a mistake for the West. One year on from the start of the revolutionary Maidan protests in Kiev that led to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent annexation of Crimea, Ukraine is still between a rock and a hard place....
