February, 2025

• 10 February

  Russian Company Behind Egypt Wheat Cargo Had History of Selling ‘Stolen’ Ukraine Grain

  

  An Egyptian military agency imported over 20,000 tons of wheat carried by a Russian vessel originally destined for Syria. The company behind the shipment had a history of selling grain from occupied regions of Ukraine. A Russian company with a history of selling grain from occupied areas of Ukraine exported …

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• 10 February

  The Era of Wild Putinism: How War Is Changing the Russian Regime and Elites

  

  In today’s Russia, no one knows what tomorrow may bring. Everyone must be prepared to be arrested or imprisoned at any moment, regardless of their position and rank. The country’s elites are gradually descending into survival mode: it’s every man for himself. Russian President Vladimir Putin is invariably described by …

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• 10 February

  The Gulf Shifts Policies in Response to the “New” Syria

  

  Saudi Arabia and the UAE have long opposed regime change. But they’re switching course with Syria, where they’re embracing new dynamics and power realities. On December 8, 2024, armed militias toppled the brutal dictatorship of the Assad family, ending a nearly fourteen-year civil war in Syria. Back in March 2011, …

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• 10 February

  Imaginer la Riviera de Gaza et autres folies

  

  Netanyahou remporte une autre victoire face à une Maison-Blanche ignorante. Le problème est que les personnes qui regardent nerveusement ce que fait le président Donald Trump pour remodeler le Moyen-Orient au profit d’Israël ne regardent pas assez profondément les changements de politique intérieure américaine qui sont également promus et qui …

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• 10 February

  Le «plan» de Trump pour Gaza : le monde entier est contre, à part la bande à Bibi

  

  Gaza est à jamais palestinienne, disent à Donald Trump ses habitants fatigués de la guerre par Nagham Mohanna Les habitants de Gaza qualifient de «fantasmes» les propositions du président concernant le contrôle de l’enclave par les USA. Les habitants de Gaza se sont montrés défiants mercredi face à toute tentative …

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• 10 February

  What Syrians Can Learn From Libya’s Revolution

  

  Two fateful missteps after the fall of dictator Muammar Qadhafi offer important lessons on the impact of early policy choices. Jubilant crowds tearing down statues and posters of a hated despot. Feared prisons emptying out their longtime occupants. City squares hosting raucous rallies and solemn Friday prayers, free from the …

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• 8 February

  Climate Emergency: Turning Up the Heat

  

  Politicians in Central Europe have so far failed to offer comprehensive strategies to fight climate change. A new European Commission, forged in the wake of pandemic and war, is unlikely to either. 2024 was the hottest year on record, EU scientists have confirmed, and was the first year in which …

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• 8 February

  Migration: A New Pact Doomed to Fail from the Start

  

  Just over 220,000 migrants were detected trying to cross into Europe illegally in the first 11 months of 2024, according to Frontex data. That represents a decrease of about 40 per cent from 2023, and is several orders of size smaller than the numbers seen in 2015, when around 1 …

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• 8 February

  Central European Economies: Trump, Trade and Tariffs

  

  Trump’s victory was cheered by populists across Central Europe, but his return looks anything but good news for regional economies already faltering as they enter 2025. The economies of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are among the most vulnerable in the EU to the repeated threats by incoming US president, …

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• 8 February

  Trumpian Populism: On the March in Central Europe

  

  Europe’s far-right and illiberal populists are convinced of being “on the right side of history”. But if history is anything to go by, a Trump win could hold a few bitter surprises. “Americans are so enamoured of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom,” …

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