Contrary to the European trend, Germany wants to extend daily working hours. Here’s why the current debate is a step ...

Western allies are urging Ukraine to hold presidential elections. But President Zelenskyy has rejected such demands – for good reasons ...

Christoph P. Mohr heads the India Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Delhi. Previously, he was FES Regional Director in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. He is co-editor of the volume Flight, ...

Reuters/Johanna Geron Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, so far, has had a much more harmonious relationship with the EU than Viktor Orbán. For a long time, a far-right European Union seemed ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

Liechtenstein has just initiated a resolution at the United Nations that mandates a meeting of the General Assembly whenever a veto is cast in the Security Council. What’s behind this initiative? The ...

Read this article in German. In 1990, Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen stated that ‘more than 100 million women are missing.’ What exactly did he mean by ‘missing’ here? Girls become ‘missing ...

EPA Popular among Chinese tourists: Statues of Mao Zedong displayed for sale in a souvenir store in Shaoshan, Mao's hometown. When Hua Guofeng – Mao Zedong’s designated successor – arranged the arrest ...

The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.

From September 2019 onwards, the German-speaking community of Belgium is to have a permanent system of political participation using citizens’ drawn by lot, next to the existing parliament. Daniel ...

The EU’s hands-off approach to the Morocco-Algeria conflict is backfiring — the cost of non-engagement is clear, and so are the opportunities The European Union is seeking to reinvigorate its ...

The war in Ukraine is part of the struggle for a new world order. Russia and China are openly challenging the Pax Americana. But the question how the next world order will look like remains open. In ...