Victor Angelo

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Russia is still obsessed with NATO. The Russian leaders cannot understand that today´s NATO is very different from the Cold War organisati...

Joachim Glauck, the German President, in his speech at the opening of the Munich Security Conference, expressed the view that his country ...

The West European socialists, on the centre-left, the social-democrat kind of socialists, feel these days very betrayed by François Hollan...

The 2014 Munich Security Conference (MSC) will open this Friday. With time, the MSC has become an important and very high profile annual e...

I had a long discussion today about the current impact of the UN missions on peace and security. It all started with a silent crisis, Guin...

I have talked to someone who knows Egypt well. And I came to the conclusion that any black-and-white approach to the current situation in ...

The next EU-Russia Summit is taking place on Tuesday, 28 January, in Brussels. It will be a very short meeting. Initially thought to last ...

President Yanukovych of Ukraine is now blinking. The offer he made, without proper negotiations, to take one of the opposition leaders as ...

The Ukrainian situation remains at the top of the EU agenda. It is true that the crisis keeps widening. But there is another major reason....