Section: CIDOB (Spain)
Will Fillon Change French Policy on Russia and the Middle East?
What might France’s foreign policy look like if François Fillon, who won a landslide in the conservative presidential primary last Sunday becomes the country’s next head of state in May 2017? As Vladimir Putin praised Nicolas Sarkozy’s former prime minister on his plans for a rapprochement with Moscow, observers noted the close...
Brexit: Causes and Consequences
Europe is at an Inflexion Point of DangerThe vote by the British people to leave the European Union sent shockwaves across the continent of Europe and beyond. It is the most significant event in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and may well mark the beginning of the end of the European Union as we have known it. The European Union...
Poland: the “Good Change”
“Poland is in ruins!” Anyone hearing this slogan in the summer of 2015 might have been excused for feeling somewhat surprised. The economy was booming, with GDP growth at 3.6% (up from 3.3% the year before), unemployment had fallen into single digits for the first time in years, and its Gini coefficient was declining. All of this with a budget...
