After the last 18 months, no serious European leader can honestly say that Europe doesn’t need to rethink its approach to security. We are facing the Russian threat from the East,…

Patrick Costello on repeated errors America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region by Marc Lynch published by Hurst As Professor Marc Lynch explicitly states, his book was written at a moment of rag...

A big thanks to Nadim Houry and the Arab Reform Initiative for encouraging me to think through what a new EU Middle East strategy should look like https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/time-for-eur...

For the Spanish speakers among you (or expert users of Google translate), this article on UK/US relations was substantially based on interviews with myself and my good friend Mariano Aguirre. https:/...

My latest piece for Chartist on how European deregulation is being achieved with the support of the far right. https://lnkd.in/e-BDRVaT

Read what people are writing to us about this week and over the festive period.

defeat of the socialists in Portugal after a relative success story

Patrick Costello sees Macron on the back foot with the far right threatening and the left alliance fracturing Possibly the biggest irony of Emmanuel Macron’s political career is that he entered politi...

Patrick Costello sees much hand wringing with minimum action from Brussels Often, it is harrowing photos that change policy by forcing a sea change in public opinion that governments cannot resist. Th...

Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

Patrick Costello looks behind Netanyahu’s military offensive against Iran seeing it as a dangerous escalation of his war against Palestinians Israel’s latest illegal military action, against Iran, is ...

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.

The European Democracy Hub asked experts on democracy to reflect on the pivotal year of elections and its impact on democratic politics.

Patrick Costello says it’s time to stop hoping for the best as the far right organise across nations As the new EU Commissioners appoint their senior staff (Cabinets) and move into their Berlaymont of...

The European Democracy Hub asked experts on democracy to reflect on the pivotal year of elections and its impact on democratic politics.

MAG welcomes the US and France-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon. The Lebanese people now face a huge reconstruction task that will be seriously hampered by the unexploded ordnance (UXO) left behind after...

As a party with Nazi roots tops the poll in Austria Patrick Costello examines the far right threat across Europe The clear win by Austria’s far right FPÖ in national elections on 30 September was furt...

Letters: Readers respond to Rafael Behr’s article on the rise of far-right and nationalist politics