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Winds of change for Pakistan?
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The electoral victory of Nawaz Sharif from the Muslim League gives grounds to hope for consolidation of democracy in Pakistan. Citizens of the country expect the return of Nawaz Sharif to be the solution to many pressing issues. FRIDE’s senior...
The EU and Venezuela: continuity, contention and polarisation
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Flickr-MPP Relaciones Exteriores By Eric Wheeler Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of Venezuela on 20 April 2013. His election and inauguration have been an ongoing source of controversy, especially due to criticism from opposition cand...
Military Capabilities: Why NATO needs the EU
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FRIDE’s Head of Strategic Affairs, Daniel Keohane, has contributed a chapter on “Smart Defence and the Capability Challenge: Why NATO needs the EU”, to a collection of essays titled Dynamic Change: Rethinking NATO’s Capabiliti...
Bye bye, Neighbourhood
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(flickr//camposphotography) By Kristina Kausch In a new working paper published by EuroMeSCo, I attempt to systematically assess European ‘leverage’ towards a number of Ar...
Support for democracy in Russia: where next?
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By Eleonora Tafuro The massive anti-government demonstrations that took place in Bolotnaya square 16 months ago did not pave the way to a ‘Moscow spring’, but to a new phase of illiberal measures in Russia. The conviction of two members o...
Can the EU combine diplomacy, defence and development?
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For many years politicians and officials have described the EU’s main added value in international security as its ability to bring together a wide range of instruments, from diplomats to development and humanitarian projects to military activi...
Venezuela elige a Maduro
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¿Las elecciones de la discordia? Los venezolanos han votado y Nicolás Maduro ha salido elegido frente a Henrique Capriles por una diferencia muy estrecha. Ahora, llega el momento de que el país tome las riendas y haga frente a un...
How the EU should help Tajikistan
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(European External Action Service-Flickr) Relations between the European Union and impoverished and conflict-prone Tajikistan have developed substantially since 2007 under the EU Strategy for Central Asia. The EU is one of the most...
Supporting reform in Georgia
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(Van Rompuy meeting the Georgian PM, Bidzina Ivanishvili (Flickr/President of the European Council) As the EU and Georgia prepare to sign the Association Agreement later this year, the recent...
Democratic transition in Libya
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Barah Mikaïl, senior researcher at FRIDE, talks about the situation of Libya, when the mandate of the United Nations in this country expires.
Elections in Kenya
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Elections in Kenya have taken place and Uhuru Kenyatta has been elected President. Clare Castillejo, senior researcher at FRIDE, analyzes the aftermath in the African country. -You can watch the video by clicking on the image-...
Lo que deja Chávez
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(globovision) La muerte de Hugo Chávez dejará un vacío de poder en Venezuela y en América Latina. Para muchos, entrará en la historia de Venezuela y del continente como una de las grandes figuras míticas y, a...
Venezuela sin Hugo Chávez
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Entrevista a Susanne Gratius, investigadora senior en FRIDE. ¿Cuál será el rumbo del país venezolano? La muerte del presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez sitúa al país latinoamericano ante una cierta incer...
La historia…nos lo dirá
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(www_ukberri_net) Laura Tedesco Ahora, justamente cuando ya se ha ido, se juega el futuro de Hugo Chávez. Los próximos meses, o años, son cruciales para saber si los pilares de su Revolución Bolivariana permanecen o se esf...
Benedicto XVI y Raúl Castro
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Algo tienen en común el Papa Benedicto XVI y Raúl Castro: son longevos y se retiran (o al menos lo prometen) voluntariamente del poder. A diferencia de Fidel que renunció a la presidencia en 2006 por graves problemas de salud, su...
What to do about North Korea
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Photo courtesy of Flickr// Kmichiels At a recent session of the UN Conference on Disarmament, North Korean envoy Jon Yong Ryong threatened South Korea with final destruction. This follows the country’s third nuclear weapons test conducted on 12...
Last shot at the EU-India FTA
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Like a series of test cricket, negotiations on the EU-India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA), the partnership’s free trade venture, have been ongoing for six years now. Players on both sides are hopeful that 2013 will be the fina...
Tunisia: who serves the violence?
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(Photo by Amine Ghrabi // CCflickr) By Kristina Kausch After last week’s targeted political assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaïd in Tunis, the Arab Spring’s so far most successful transition appears to have turned sour. M...
Clare Castillejo. Mali’s conflict
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Senior researcher and research coordinator at FRIDE, Clare Castillejo, give us some of the impressions about Mali’s current political situation and analyses the strategies that the UE should put into action.
