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Turkish military tanks drive past the town of Ariha on the M4 highway in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on May 7, 2020.

Turkey Opened the Door to the European Court of Human Rights for Syrian Victims

With Turkey's occupation of parts of northern Syria, a new venue may now be available to victims: the European Court of Human Rights.
The outside facade of the German Federal Constitutional Court

An Ongoing Problem: Germany’s Protection of Foreigners’ Communication Abroad

Will Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court press for further reforms or defer the matter to politics when it decides on the issue later this month?
Israeli police stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in Bnei Barak

Can Governments Track the Pandemic and Still Protect Privacy?

A team of Europeans is creating a different contact-tracing tool that they say is designed to limit the collection and exposure of personal data.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell (C), the Presidents of Kosovo Hashim Thaci (L background) and Serbia Aleksandar Vucic (R background) watch the signing of an agreement between Kosovo and Serbia for railway and street projects.

US Burns Credibility in Grenell Quest for Foreign Policy Win, as Kosovo Government Falls

Amid COVID19 crisis, Special Envoy Richard Grenell's pressure on Kosovo precipitates collapse of popular and promising reformist government.
Prime minister of People's Republic of China, Li Keqiang, speaks during his visit to the construction site of the bridge connecting the Croatian peninsula of Peljesac with the rest of the coast and Croatia mainland on April 11, 2019.

As Russia and China Seek a Beachhead in the Western Balkans, a U.S.-U.K. Push Could Avert an Authoritarian Turn

Genuinely sustainable progress in the Western Balkans turns on jobs, equitably distributed revenue, and the physical security that undergirds effective governance.
Antique Vintage Map of Europe

Trump Repudiates a Century of U.S. Policy

The United States has consistently held that it was in our national security interest to ensure that only peaceful means were used to alter political boundaries in Europe. The…
Navy Lt. Bethany Baker monitors the location of the OC-135B Open Skies aircraft over Haiti using the Global Positioning System on a laptop Jan. 16, 2010.

Abandoning Open Skies: Trump Would Be Squandering More of Our Security Inheritance

Rumors have been swirling about President Donald Trump deciding to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty. Congress, our allies and the public have been kept in…
A statute of Poland’s 17th-century monarch King Sigismund III Vasa covered with a chasuble reading the word "Constitution" on September 17, 2018.

Did the ECJ Just Give a Stamp of Approval to Poland’s Backsliding?

The European Court of Justice is set to rule this year or early next on Poland’s two-year-old revised disciplinary regime for judges, a central mechanism that the ruling Law…
Bishop Martin Hein speaks at the coffin of murdered German politician Walter Lübcke at Lübcke's memorial service at St. Martin church on June 13, 2019 in Kassel, Germany.

Stop Blaming Immigrants for Right-Wing Extremism

While the connection between immigration and Islamist terrorism has been challenged, the assertion that immigrants are also to blame for right-wing extremism is just as dishonest…
U.S. and Polish forces participate in a simulated tank battle during the "Tank Battle" event held at Below Piskie Training Area, July 13.

Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border Wall

The Trump administration is taking $770 million from the European Deterrence Initiative, a program created to shore up European defense after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen.

EU Court of Justice Grapples with U.S. Surveillance in Schrems II

Earlier this month, the Court of Justice of the European Union heard argument in Schrems II, a case that could limit companies’ ability to transfer data into the United States…
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Blocking or Aiding Asylum Seekers? The U.S.-Canada “Safe Third Country” Agreement and Examples from Europe

The Trump administration's new asylum regulation attempts an end run around the statutory requirements of an actual “Safe Third Country” agreement. Here's how such an agreement…
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