In the labyrinth of global geopolitics, few figures loom as menacingly and deceitfully as Vladimir Putin. The Russian president, with his steely gaze and calculated rhetoric, has once again made an insincere offer to end the war in Ukraine—a proposal…
Almost two years ago, I called here for the closure of Amnesty International, once a beacon of the international fight for human rights. And I was not the only one. The occasion was the organisation’s infamous August 2022 report on…
In a geopolitical landscape full of tension and controversy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has recently positioned himself as an unlikely broker of peace between Russia and Ukraine. However, due to his extensive ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the…
The Europeans have agreed on a new “triumvirate” to lead the EU over the next four years: Ursula von der Leyen as head of the EU “government,” former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa as head of the European Council, and…
Russia did everything it could to make the peace conference on Ukraine in Switzerland pointless and sabotage it. It invested everything it had of the little remaining international credit to make the conference in Bürgenstock resort a failure. The desperate…
For a long time, rigid political leaders and bureaucrats have not been the only ones engaging in diplomacy and critical intergovernmental affairs, and it is a good thing that this has been the case. Mrs Olena Zelenska visited Belgrade during…
For some reason, the news that Serbia sent Ukraine financial aid of $32.4 million in March did not provoke much interest in both countries. Several Ukrainian portals reported this confirmation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance, obtained by the Liga…
You probably have a young colleague who is creative, hardworking, passionate and loyal to the team and who, by all accounts, deserves to reach the C-suite in the organisation where you work. However, you must have often witnessed the obstacles…
The most significant political meeting this year took place last Wednesday. The presidents of the US and China, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, talked for four hours in San Francisco. They have not met for a year. During that time,…
At the last G20 summit in India, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni informed the Chinese leadership that her country would be leaving the Belt and Road Initiative with China by the end of the year. “It is an awful project.…
