On 18 March, Kyrgyzstan confirmed the first three cases of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country has declared a state of emergency and and closed its international borders. As of 30th June, Kyrgyzstan counted 5296 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 2370 recoveries …
Georgia, similar to the other countries, has been struggling with the Covid-19 since February 2020. In an interview, Professor Kornely Kakachia discusses how the government and society have been handling the pandemic since then and particularly, how the virus has …
Nicolai von Ondarza analyzes the approach of the European Union (EU) in the Brexit negotiations and explains the respectable success mainly with the unusual unity of the EU-27 and the structuring of the talks under the leadership of Michel Barnier. …
Johannes Pollak’s contribution is dealing with the topic of energy security and explains the area of tension between market liberalisation, security concerns and climate policy in which European energy policy operates. In their article, Johannes Kohls and Funda Tekin analyse …
Tajikistan just held its first parliamentary elections since the country’s main opposition party lost its registration and was declared an extremist group in 2015. As expected, President Emomali Rahmon’s party received the most votes, maintaining its dominance in a parliament …
“Europa von A bis Z” is the reference book for understanding Europe. In more than 100 contributions, renowned European experts build on their sound academic understanding of the European Union and explain and elaborate in an understandable way relevant key topics and terms from politics, economy, and history of European integration. This pocketbook is published in an updated and extended 15th edition and addresses anyone interested in Europe looking for a reliable source on the current debate on the future of the European Union.
The way of formation of statehood and ‘stateness’ is rather long and complicated for countries, that have not been recognized yet. Their additional difficulties for ‘stateness‘ are conditioned by challenges and consequences of conflict, stringent limitation of international relations, lack of experience and knowledge …
Since the independence of the five Central Asian republics in the 1990s, the European Union has been enhancing its ties with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In 2019, the European Commission and the High Representative adopted the Joint Communication …