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The EU & US negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Photo: BELGAIMAGE/ZUMAPRESS/W.Dabkowski via European Parliament. Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Unsafe Harbor: a rising tide of mistrust in the Atlantic

The TTIP negotiations are faltering and there is a growing mistrust between the two sides of the Atlantic.

By Andrés Ortega
20 Oct 2015 //
5 mins Reading time
Angela Merkel and François Hollande greet Jean-Claude Juncker in the plenary chamber (European Parliament) on 7 October. Photo: European Parliament. Elcano Blog.
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Illiberal demagoguery splits Europe at the seams

The greatest internal fissure in the EU is now between East and West. Illiberal demagoguery is a democratic regression that can undermine its very foundations.

By Andrés Ortega
13 Oct 2015 //
6 mins Reading time
U.S and Russian Airstrikes in Syria (September-October 2015). Image via The New York Times. Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Syria: tell me what your legal basis is and I’ll tell you who you are

In their approach to bombing Syria, the major powers are not pursuing the same strategic or political ends, or even justifying themselves on the same legal basis.

By Andrés Ortega
06 Oct 2015 //
6 mins Reading time
Volunteers from a Latin group in the counties of Orange and Osceola. (Hilda M. Perez). Photo: Orlando Sentinel. Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

In 2016 Latinos will decide who gets to the White House

The number of eligible Latinos (those who can register on the electoral census) should account for 13% of the total, 2% more than in the last presidential elections.

By Andrés Ortega
29 Sep 2015 //
3 mins Reading time
Refugees at Budapest Keleti railway station. Photo: Rebeca Harms / Wikimedia Commons. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe Experts Comments

The disgrace of trading refugee quotas

But to offer those opposing refugee quotas an ‘easy way out’ simply further diminishes the idea of solidarity in the European Union, both inward and outward.

By Andrés Ortega
22 Sep 2015 //
5 mins Reading time
Saida Zeinab (Damascus, Syria) in 2008 and 2014. Photo: Natalia Sancha - @NinaRev. Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Impossible Syria, in less than 600 words

Syria: 320,000 dead up to June and 4,088,099 refugees since 2011, Neither Arabs nor Westerners, nor anyone else for that matter, have a clear strategy.

By Andrés Ortega
15 Sep 2015 //
4 mins Reading time
Europe and the refugee crisis. Image via IBNLive. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe Experts Comments

Savage continent: the longer term will not resolve the shorter

Europe is forgetting where it has come from: a savage continent, but also the one that gave birth to the Enlightenment and Human Rights.

By Andrés Ortega
08 Sep 2015 //
7 mins Reading time
Global Spectator Experts Comments

The world trembled with China

China has awakened, or reawakened. The present problem is that the world trembles faced with the possible scuffing of China, of its weaknesses.

By Andrés Ortega
01 Sep 2015 //
5 mins Reading time
"The Lady and the unicorn Desire” by Unknown - À mon seul Desir. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Europe gets more unicorns

Although improving on them, Europe is short of unicorns, technology startups that have increased quickly in value by more than one billion USD by fundraising.

By Andrés Ortega
28 Jul 2015 //
4 mins Reading time

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