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Europe’s precarious security could invite Putin to expand war
Happy new years do not start like this.
Vladimir Putin
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While the West dithers, Russia steams ahead
As 2023 draws to an end, it is time for a stocktake on the most significant geopolitical issue of the past couple of years: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Macron’s reckless diplomatic defiance
It would be an understatement to say France has long sought to define and assert its position.
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The far-right European pawns in Putin’s game
It was a sight to behold. Last week, members of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) interrupted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech at the Austrian Parliament.
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Europe faces new year of political instability and war
The continent ends 2022 with a war in its east, grappling with political uncertainty, and plagued by high inflation.
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Inflation and the smoking gun in the case of NZ’s central bank
Never in the past two decades has the RBNZ deviated so much from where it should have set its OCR.
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How Germany’s political failures enabled Putin’s war
Yes, “harder years, tough years” are coming for Germany.
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Germany faces a new kind of cold war this winter
The Ukraine war has triggered an almighty political, social and economic catastrophe for Germany.
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Who needs enemies when you have friends like Orbán and Erdoğan?
Despite the threats of Russia, China, and stagflation, Hungary and Turkey are backstabbing the organisations they belong to – Nato and the EU.
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An adverse reaction the Kremlin did not see coming
The strategic implications of Putin’s war against Ukraine keep evolving as the conflict enters its fourth month.