28 Mar 2024
Azerbaijan’s “Caviar Diplomacy” of systematic bribing to downplay Azerbaijan’s human rights record, has led to investigations and convictions in several EU member states. So far, however, the main culprit has escaped unscathed. It is time that the Committee of Ministers investigate Azerbaijan’s…
28 Mar 2024
To revive the EU accession process, the EU should offer membership in the Single Market, including the four freedoms, as a credible and reachable interim goal to Ukraine, Moldova, and any of the six Western Balkan nations interested in it.
ESI background: Scoreboard - The true state of accession…
28 Mar 2024
ESI discussion paper: An Article 19 Mechanism - The need for a robust defence of EU rule of law (23 July 2020)
The EU faces three major crises today. One is a public health crisis, which threatens hundreds of thousands of lives. One is an unprecedented economic and social crisis, which puts at…
28 Mar 2024
The Council of Europe has to protect itself from the subversive influence of member states who openly disrespect the most fundamental principles of the Council of Europe, invade a fellow member state, committing massive war-crimes, while suppressing the human rights of its own citizens. The…
28 Mar 2024
Adherence to the global refugee protection system has always been fragile. And yet, today the system risks collapse, as pushbacks are carried out routinely across the world, including in Europe, in Australia and in the US. How to protect the Geneva refugee convention today? How to persuade…
28 Mar 2024
The non-refoulement principle – that no one must be sent back into danger – is the core of the Geneva Refugee Convention. Today, this principle is on the defensive worldwide. Pushbacks have been a popular policy in Australia, Israel, and the US under Donald Trump. Once democratic majorities…
28 Mar 2024
Europe has not yet understood that Ukrainian refugees are part of Putin's plan of attack. What an answer to the millions of refugees could look like.
ESI newsletter: An urgent airlift for Ukrainian refugees – how Putin’s cynical plot will fail, 22 March 2022
Auf Deutsch: Wir brauchen sofort eine…
26 Apr 2024
Kosovo’s application to become a member of Europe’s oldest Human Rights organisation is a moment of truth for many European countries which have long claimed to support Kosovo’s European aspirations.
ESI newsletter: Historic vote – Kosovo’s breakthrough – a Unicorn (24 April 2024)
ESI newsletter…