Eurasia Press & News

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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,” …

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the US has provided 43 per cent of countries’ direct military commitments to Kyiv, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. After the US, the only other double-digit contributor is Germany at 12 per cent. The third largest contributor …

Donald Trump’s latest remarks aim to erase the Palestinians and ignore international law. Since his election, President Donald Trump has insisted that he can achieve “peace” in the Middle East. In January, during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, he even declared that …