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On July 7-8, NATO allies gathered for their annual summit in Ankara. This is the first time Türkiye hosts the Heads of state and government in 20 years, the last one being in 2004 in Istanbul. The official event came at a moment in which…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, the four members of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), NATO’s partnership with the Gulf states, have been invited to join the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, of 7-8 July,…

 Il vertice NATO che si è tenuto ad Ankara il 7-8 luglio è stato fatalmente investito dalla questione iraniana, per una disgraziata coincidenza temporale (l’ennesimo scambio di missili tra USA e Iran per i traffici commerciali nello Stretto…

In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron entered the Élysée Palace as, by some distance, the most explicitly doctrinaire French president in a long time. His ambition was not purely to govern France but to reposition it as a puissance d'équilibre, the…

Since the 1920s, UK politics have been dominated by the Tories and the Labour Party. While the Lib Dems have remained a presence over the years, they have never regained the relevance of their predecessor party, the Whigs. The unusual…