
The European Union has several thousand islands, 2,400 of which are inhabited. Island status affects 20.5 million Europeans living in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, as well as in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans in the case of overseas territories. This does not include island Member States such as Ireland, Malta and Cyprus, or countries with hundreds of islands such as Croatia, Denmark, Greece and Sweden. Despite a wide variety of ecological, ec...
Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis
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2025-07-22

In many respects, Europe has recently experienced a rude awakening, albeit a salutary one. Barely recovered from the Covid pandemic, it has had to contend with the most serious energy supply crisis since the oil shocks of the 1970s, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent disruption of Russian gas supplies, particularly via the Nord Stream pipelines. After electricity prices rose to extreme levels, their recent decline in Europe is particularly welcome. But this respite...
Valérie Plagnol
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2025-04-22

Even today, most of our fellow citizens are unaware that the European Union is actively involved in the fight against terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking, in border protection and in the harmonisation of criminal legislation[1]. This is why a European internal security strategy, ProtectEU published by the Commission on April 1st is importan...
Jean Mafart
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2025-04-15

This year, we commemorate the thirtieth annive...The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is worrying the international community and especially the Europeans. Milorad Dodik, president of the Serbian entity, is refusing to apply the decisions taken by the High Representative appointed by the international community and is threatening the whole framework established thirty years ago by the Dayton-Paris Agreement. Can you explain the reasons for this discord and what the risks are?
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2025-04-01

Following the failure of negotiations on Ukraine, the Kremlin's attitude should be viewed through the prism of its fears and obsessions. ‘I consider Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,’ Vladimir Putin declared on 20 June at the St Petersburg Economic Forum. This statement marked the end of a period that began with Donald Trump's taking office in the White House. That moment had represented a long-awaited prospect of peace for U...
Paul Gogo
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2025-07-15