Analytical and opinion articles on matters from world politics, international relations, and global, glocal, and local affairs.
For the first time in 47 years, the EU is made up solely of historical losers. And being the losers has resulted in much invalubale wisdom that the world should look up to.
Continue reading “The EU Is Finally a Union of Losers Only. And That Is a Great Thing!”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Not to worry: the Biden years ahead will be no less challenging for the European Union and the Trans-Atlantic relations than the Trump years just past!
Continue reading “The EU Survived Trump. Now It’s Gotta Survive Biden”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Somehow Donald J. Trump seems to be on his way out of the White House some time by early 2021. The ripple effect from his one-term “reality show” presidency is going to be hovering around US and world affairs for quite some time. And European and EU affairs, for that matter.
Continue reading “Trump Was Good for the EU. Too Bad the EU Didn’t Take Advantage”
Following is a view on Romania’s 10 most important and most pressing geopolitical and national security issues and challenges, ranked in descending level of importance. Continue reading “Top 10 Geopolitical Issues of Romania: Corruption, Emigration, Russia, Hungarians, Moldova, Et Al.”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Or why Britain is a lot more like the USA, Russia, China, Turkey, or Iran than it is like Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Poland.
Continue reading “Post-Brexit EU Is Finally a Union of True Humility. And That Is a Great Thing!”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Salvini’s quest for power has just been aided by those who want to stop or punish him by putting him on trial.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Brexit is Britain’s biggest European opt-out – the opt-out from responsibility. Nothing more, nothing less.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Take a fun look at a wonderful display of the “strong men” frenemy macho state leaders that dominate the world of today in what might be its last decades. Continue reading “The Brady Bunch of Eurasia: Putin, Erdogan, Borisov, Vucic; Jets, Missiles, TurkStream, Balkan Stream, et. Al.”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The fact that the 3.5-year-long “life support” of “EU Britain” is finally about to be “unplugged” already at the start of 2020 is a good enough cause for optimism for the new year. Continue reading “2020: The Year of Brexit (R.I.P. EU Britain (1973 – 2020)), and Who Is How Old in EU Years”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
In 2019, Europe was once again spared from an overt rise of stereotypical “brownshirts”. Yet, diverse as it is, the far right is bound to keep growing because its two major root causes are not being addressed by the political mainstream. Hands down, the most crucial development of 2019 as far as the entirety of the European Union is concerned has been the seemingly sustainable and stable surge of the far right. Continue reading “2019: The Year the Far Right Sustainably Surged in Europe and Why It Will Keep Growing”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The current attempts to resolve the Ukraine – Russia conflict based on transactional arrangements seem doomed precisely because of their transactional nature. Continue reading “EU’s Ukraine War Conundrum in 2020 and Franco-Germany’s Failure in Relations with Russia”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
If France’s President doesn’t know who Europe and the West’s enemies are, Europe and the West are in a very, very serious trouble.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Western failures in Eastern Europe and at home, coupled with Eastern Europeans’ impotence, have entrenched post-communism, the highest stage of communism.
“A specter is haunting Europe. The specter of post-communism…” Continue reading “30 Years of Post-Communism with Well-Deserved Gloom. But Why and By Whom? (written for The European Views*)”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Franco-Germany seems like the only candidate capable of filling the Western leadership gap opened up by Trump and Brexit.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Western Europe has overwhelming reasons, both geopolitical and civilizational, to prioritize Eastern Europe above other regions.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The rationale for Macron’s decision doesn’t make sense as purely “enlargement fatique”.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Losing influence inside and through the EU as a result of Brexit will amount to Britain’s loss of one its last trappings of being a first-rate great power.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Modern day acts of racism are especially perplexing and worrying given Bulgaria’s own tradition of tolerance, fighting for freedom, and sympathy for the oppressed.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Size and a desire to join set Ukraine apart from the rest of the world in a unique way as far as the European Union should be concerned.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The EU should rethink its state aid rules when it comes to foreign competition, and the EU multinationals – their approach towards the Union’s home turf.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
In the three-and-a-half years since the Brits voted to leave the Union, the opportunity cost from the Brexit process has been enormous – for the EU, for the UK, and for the entire West.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The main difference between East and West Germans 30 years after the Reunification seems to be that the former are less constained by the paradigms of political correctness.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The Irish border backstop quagmire is certain to make all EU countries think of their border regions if they are ever tempted to consider leaving the Union.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Referring to the EU as a “bloc” doesn’t make enough sense any way you look at it.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The United States has had to back down twice in the past 16 years in major trade disputes with the European Union.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
INSTEX has created a dangerous precedent that can ruin future Western sanctions, while also disgruntling everybody.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Engaging with the European far right is unpredictable, risky business because you never what kinds of monsters it might produce.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Without figuring out how to complete successfully the integration of Eastern and Western Europe, the EU will be doomed to failure.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The next President of the European Commission could outplay the unpleasant Eastern European and Italian leaders who voted her into office. And she really should.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The British people would never have fallen for Brexit, had the European values of today not been completely frozen out of the Brexit debate. Continue reading “Look Back in Anger: How the Brexit Debate Was Framed All Wrong (written for The European Views*)”
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