(*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”
(*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.)
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.)
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.
Modern-day Western pseudo-liberalism boils down to grave misunderstanding and distortion of some of the most basic principles of the noble and lofty classical liberalism.
What you end up with is: “US President Donald Trump today signed an executive order on…” Continue reading “President Donald Trump and the (Pseudo-)Liberal Elites Who Got Him Elected”
Britain is to rely increasingly on its special relationship with America because of Brexit; yet, because of Brexit that relationship won’t be so special anymore.
Continue reading “Brexiting Britain’s ‘Special Relationship’ with the USA: Not So Special Anymore!”
The early steps of France’s new President indicate he won’t be… but one never knows. Continue reading “Macron, Please Don’t Be Another Obama! Or Another Trudeau!”
Hey, perhaps Trump could become the US President to manage to get the Europeans to start paying for their own defense, and build up their own militaries to be able to protect themselves!
Continue reading “When Trump Is Right: NATO Europeans’ Buck Passing, Free-Riding Shame”
Germany needs to stand up, not as an aggressor or an imperialist power of the past, but as a defender of democracy. Continue reading “When the Germans Marching East Is a Good Thing. Can Germany Handle It?”
The good people of the EU have had every chance to solidify their supra-national state as a benevolent power but didn’t.
Also, between Donald Trump and Donald Tusk, I like Donald Duck best… Continue reading “The EU That Should Have Pulled Itself Together Long before Trump”
China might have achieved a major geopolitical breakthrough mainly thanks to domestic shifts in some of the top US allies in the Asia-Pacific region. If it permanently secures them on its side, this might be a game changer for the geopolitics of the entire globe. Continue reading “Has China Just Made Its Big Geopolitical Break? Or Is It about To?”
Trump’s “Muslim Travel Ban” will yield few practical benefits while boosting anti-Americanism around the globe. Yet, Trump’s doing it – because HE CAN. Continue reading “New US President Trump’s ‘Muslim Travel Ban’: Much Bravado about Nothing!”
In the past few years, the cornerstone of Eastern Europe’s progress, the US security umbrella, has started to seem increasingly, and dreadfully, shaky. Continue reading “Will Trump Let Eastern Europe Be ‘Trumpled’? By Russia or by Turkey?”
Pax Glocalica 
