Be among the first to know what's going on! ESI offers you the possibility of receiving first hand information and our latest reports free of charge. Simply subscribe to our newsletter by entering your name and email address here.
Newsletters
Newsletter subscription
2015
Türkiye Almanya'ya Neden Yardım Etmeli – Avrupa'da Aşırı Sağ Tehdidi
13/2015 12 December 2015Mülteci krizine çözüm konusunda Almanya ve Türkiye'den daha iyi konuma sahip ve daha fazla inanılırlığı haiz başka iki ülke yok. İkisi de bu sorunun çözümünde vazgeçilmez aktörler olarak belirmekte.
Accession revolution in Brussels – a new flagship – Usain Bolt and the quality of statistics
12/2015 9 November 2015A new generation of EU accession reports will be published. If developed further in coming years, this may be the beginning of a revolution in accession methodology.
Merkel in Ankara – Fences that kill – A safe third country
11/2015 18 October 2015If Germany and Turkey cannot reach a deal, there are no other solutions in sight, and the mass migration of Syrians and others into the EU will continue.
The Merkel Plan – A proposal for the Syrian refugee crisis
10/2015 4 October 2015In the current political climate, there is little that European Union institutions can bring to the table. For this reason, it is Germany that must take the lead. We also explain why an agreement between Berlin and Ankara is in the security interest of Turkey.
Refugees as a means to an end – The EU's most dangerous man
9/2015 24 September 2015Viktor Orban offers no credible or practical proposals how to deal with the causes of displacement; he also has no credible proposals on how to stop the loss of control on the EU's external borders.
Saving lives in the Aegean – Teaching war in School
8/2015 18 September 2015Europe is witnessing the biggest movement of people across South East Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990s: the mass migration of mainly Syrian refugees from Turkey to Greece and then on to Germany.
On the brink in Greece – the vote today
7/2015 5 July 2015Today Greeks vote in a referendum whose outcome could have dramatic consequences for their country. Polls show that the result is on a knife-edge. Every vote counts.
Dorian Gray in Europe – The End of Shame and Human Rights
6/2015 2 June 2015The Council of Europe is facing a crisis of credibility today, so deep that it appears to paralyse those in charge of the institution.
Alchemist – On writing – Kosovo in six numbers – Why Kosovo needs migration
5/2015 30 April 2015Without migration Kosovo has no medium term economic future.
Formula One and human rights – Vaclav and Rasul – Iwinski and the Garden Party
4/2015 23 April 2015There is no reason to expect sports organisations to condemn a regime for human rights abuses that is praised by the leading clubs of European democracies: the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Bosnia as Wunderkind – Corruption from Kosovo to Germany
3/2015 19 March 2015What is needed in discussions of corruption in the Balkans and Turkey is depth, not shallowness, and statements based on serious analysis, not preconceptions. The European Commission has the tool to ensure this. It only has to use it.
VISA AND ASYLUM – Red Alert on Turkey – Unfair in Kosovo – Germany's problem
2/2015 10 March 2015The vision of a Europe in 2017 with more visa free travel, fewer Balkan asylum claims, better police cooperation and better respect for human rights is realistic.
The good news from Greece – Letters from prison
1/2015 23 February 2015We look at similarities between Yannis Boutaris (born in 1942), mayor of Thessaloniki, and Alexis Tsipras (born in 1974), Greece's new prime minister. Both are charismatic, unconventional, proudly secular and ready to defy taboos.
2014
End of Year – Pessimism and Protest in Bulgaria – Illusions in Bosnia – Books in Kosovo
16/2014 24 December 2014The biggest challenge for leaders in Bosnia in 2015 will be to carry out reforms in the face of strong illusions about the causes of the Bosnian development crisis.
The mercy of Commodus – The failure of Jagland
15/2014 14 November 2014Azerbaijan's dissidents are receiving global recognition but remain in jail. And so far the Council of Europe has barely reacted to their imprisonment.
Pumpkins, outliers and the Doing Business illusion
14/2014 4 November 2014Rankings are dangerous when the results are misleading and when gaming the ranking becomes more important than focusing on what really matters for genuine reforms
2014 and the threat to Sakharov's legacy
13/2014 16 October 2014Unprecedented waves of political arrests in Azerbaijan and Russia are the result of a deliberate policy to crash all independent voices
Moscow Appeal – The case for Leyla Yunus
12/2014 2 October 2014Drawing on decades of experience human rights defenders are sounding an alarm bell. Will it be a wake-up call for European institutions?
Andrei Sakharov and the defence of the unjustly persecuted
11/2014 23 September 2014We believe Leyla Yunus would be an excellent winner of the 2014 prize, on behalf of the community of beleaguered human rights defenders in Azerbaijan
The LIST and arrests in Baku – Sakharov prize 2014 – Black Sea in Budapest – Capacity building in Kosovo
10/2014 4 September 2014Azerbaijan has made a mockery of the Council of Europe and its role in defending the European Convention on Human Rights