EU-Russia relations: time to break the stalemate?
“A Common European Home from Lisbon to Vladivostok.” That was the vision of the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.…
Demographic trends in the 21st century
Author: Daniel Llorente Demography is one of the most accurate social sciences. In 2021 we know how many adults will enter the labor force…
Biden and the future of democracies
Authors: Miquel Gil and Adrià Fortet Pictures coming out of Capitol Hill during its assault on January 6 had a profound effect on American…
Energy sovereignty and the role of nuclear energy
We usually hear vague proposals that would quickly improve the current energy model, lower CO2 emissions, and lead us to a sustainable society in…
The Abraham Accords: the vindication of revisionist Zionism?
On 13th August 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates surprised the world by announcing a historic peace agreement that ensured the Emirati recognition…
The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: the risks of navigating without a map
On the brink of 2021, China and the European Union (EU) signed the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’s (CAI). The Commission argues that the…
The world as it is or as we would like it to be?
The restoration of realism at the heart of old Europe, perhaps even more so in Catalonia, is not an easy task. Fundamentally, the difficulty…
The Second Karabakh War and the new geopolitics in the South Caucasus
2020 is gone, but it has been a year that set global dynamics in fast motion. The tectonic plates of a changing international order…
The European Union is an international organization
The European Union seems to be living in an almost permanent institutional crisis. But looking at it through a wider perspective, we are still…
Catalonia’s opportunity in the new Mediterranean equilibrium
During the Cold War, there was complete strategic alignment between the United States (US) and Western Europe, evidenced in particular by the creation of…