Prince Michael of Liechtenstein

  One year ago, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel, killing over 2,000 civilians, including infants, and taking hundreds of hostages. This savage act of violence led to an escalation over the past year that has ignited conflict across the region. We must ask: What is the logic behind such irrationality? To analyze this, we must separate […]

  Leading German economic agencies have revised the country’s forecast for 2024, predicting a decrease of 0.1 percent in gross domestic product. What is happening to Europe’s largest economy? Looking at Germany’s situation, one cannot help but wonder. Even the most outlandish fiction would struggle to match this level of absurdity. This comment will not delve into […]

  Historian Christopher Clark wrote the impressive book on how the European powers sleepwalked unnecessarily into World War I at the beginning of the last century. Can we learn something from this? There has been no period in history without war. Europe had the unique chance of a very long peace, mainly protected by the United […]

Turkey has applied for membership in BRICS, an association initially comprised of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These countries are all leading economies on their respective continents. At the beginning of this year, four additional states joined the organization: Iran, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ethiopia and Egypt. Saudi […]

  Europe faces a rising wave of terrorism and increasing crime, yet its political elites struggle to address the situation effectively. They often misidentify the root causes – likely due to ideological bias – leading to misguided measures. Taylor Swift’s concert in Vienna was canceled due to a terrorist threat, and France and Germany imposed disproportionately high […]