Still time to register for the online discussion with Ukrainian experts on this topic tomorrow.
The integration of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, and remote sensing into military operations is rapidly transforming modern warfare. Nowhere is this more...
Even that more limited goal seems delusional to me.
In line with this argument, I set out in my @gmfus.bsky.social report elements for a strategy to support the recent Russian emigrants so that they can provide a layer of democratic civil society outside the country to complement and support civil society inside it.
After this happened a couple of times at last minute in one month with DB from Brussels to Germany, was told by a crew staff that the stretch between foreign city X and the German border was the “easiest” to cancel to help stock load inside Germany. Since then I use the local company and change.
Speaking of #Georgia, here is a must-read pre-elections assessment by my former colleague Laura Thornton for the McCain Institute, with good pre- and post-elections recommendations for the US and the EU.
McCain Institute Senior Director for Global Democracy Programs Laura Thornton has written an assessment ahead of the October 26 Georgian parliamentary election based on the “Friends of Georgia” missio...
Agree. And one has to think of the impact of that inside Georgia. Given the size of the population and thus the size of the civil society, one has to wonder to what extent such a country can "afford" to see any large number of civically engaged people leave.
It took more than two years, but Russian authorities are finally clamping down on existing loopholes that allowed Russian men to move abroad rather easily. The borders are slowly but surely closing shut. I don’t expect a big exodus, those who had the means and will to leave already left
Meanwhile, in the real world, "Unlike in neighbouring countries, such as Poland, between 2015-2023 and Hungary since 2010, the Slovak backsliding is happening quickly and on all fronts" verfassungsblog.de/fast-track-d...#EURuleofLaw
Over the past ten months, the Fico IV government in Slovakia has intensified its assault on democratic principles, revealing deep vulnerabilities in our legal system. This article examines the governm...
And yet they have to keep raising the rates because there are not enough takers.