Introduction: Preview of the Common European Asylum System The uncontrolled and large number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015 has put a strain not…
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Imagine you are three years continually sailing on the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea in search and rescue missions to save countless of helpless lives…
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In the last couple of years, the EU is hit with growing populism, and far-right parties are on the march everywhere. This makes the EU…
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The concept of Europeanization is a very broad, comprehensive and sometimes insufficiently defined process with different interpretations. Or, as Paolo Graziano and Maarten Vink are…
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The idea of soft power is the opposite of the “obsession” realists have with the so-called “hard power” that implies military power, self-help and survival…
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Moldova as part of the USSR with the beginnings of its collapse began its complicated process of creating a country which in turn produced the…
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Conflicts in Georgia began with the disintegration of the USSR. After 2008, Russia recognized the regions and clearly announced the new geopolitical reality and without…
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“The West must realize that for Russia, Ukraine will never be a foreign country” which in one sentence Kissinger brilliantly describes Ukraine and its relationship…
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