“When I was in Lesbos, there were over 9,000, 10,000 people in the streets with little food, little water, and nothing else… literally lines of...
Ugly, Uglier, Ugliest: Migration at a Time of Covid
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Reshuffling the Global Deck
“We have entered a world which we've not experienced for a long time … The most populous nation in the world is acquiring the economic and military...
Bearing Witness
Earlier this month, the migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos were again homeless after fires, probably set out of desperation,...
Power to the People
“What building a state and what building a society means … is for people to come together, discuss, and agree on a shared way forward.” “When they...
Europe’s Union: Better after Covid?
“The European project has suffered and suffers from a structural blame game from the member states.” —Ana Palacio “You need to have a common...
Talking Turkey
“We have a neighbor who is important, big, but still very aggressive, very assertive, and looking for adventures.” “Erdoğan wants to dictate the...
A Turkish Game of Thrones
“You can't play Russian roulette any longer in diplomacy. You don't know what's coming up next...” — Nabil Fahmy “We are now living … not in a world...
There is No Solution Without You
“What Covid has done is to apply an extraordinary and unusually powerful microscope to worldwide governance. And much of what we see through that...
Africa on the Run
“The journey to development has been stunted.” —Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr “Because there's less external pressure on the continent now than there has ever...