If Brussels hopes to confront the threat posed by irregular migration from Russia and Belarus, it must work collaboratively with its members to prevent this new form of hybrid warfare from overwhelming frontline EU states.

Ad hoc and punitive approaches to Mediterranean migration are doomed to fail. Only a comprehension and cooperative approach based on mutual respect and shared responsibility can prevail. The Mediterranean Migration Forum (TMMF) is just that.

Reprisal attacks against the Syrian government and renewed refugee flows into Europe are just two of the potential consequences of a deadly airstrike on Turkish troops in Idlib.

After a three-decade absence from the Horn of Africa, Italy is re-engaging with the region – and its ambitions go well beyond the issue of migration.

As one era draws to a close, the CDU leadership race teases a new one.

Upcoming elections are being billed as a fight for the country’s soul, but this is one battle that’s likely to end in stalemate.

In its singular focus on migration, Italy’s Mediterranean policy misses the forest for the trees.

Will Sweden be the next electoral pick-up for Europe’s far right?

Pedro Sanchez and the PSOE must find a workable solution to the migration issue; the future of social democracy in Europe may depend on it.

Stabilizing Libya to stem the flow of migrants to European shores may be the one thing that Rome and Paris can actually agree on.

Will Sebastian Kurz’ “axis of the willing against illegal migration” sound the death knell for the Merkel era in Germany?

We must reject extremist positions and become stronger defenders of our values and political tradition.

New elections loom in Italy, the Trump-Kim summit gets back on track, and a Congressional bombshell on China Communist Party subversion in New Zealand.

It’s time to invoke the Cartagena Declaration and provide Venezuelans stranded abroad with the legal protections and funding they need.

Has austerity and EU intervention forestalled the possibility of a Greece-like repeat in Italy, or merely delayed it?

A slog expected in Italian coalition talks, more details of President Trump’s tariffs come to light, and the Japanese economy didn’t have such a bad fourth quarter after all.

The Italian general election swept away the establishment without indicating what exactly should replace it.

After heaping concessions onto the final deal with the SPD, Angela Merkel might just get her fourth term as Germany’s chancellor.

By stepping down now, Angela Merkel can save the German establishment from the populist firestorm that threatens to consume it.

Is it time to consider kicking Turkey out of NATO?