Jordi Vaquer

Once the Sochi Games have passed off, Putin will once again be playing hardball

Defeated by the Kremlin's nimble footwork and hard-hitting punches, the EU can now trust only to the power of the streets if it is to have a second chance in Ukraine

Moscow is doing its best to derail EU relations with Eastern Partnership countries, and attract them to its hegemonic project

While the rise of xenophobic populism in Europe is cause for concern, civil society is also showing the will to confront it

For the survivors of last week's wreck off Lampedusa, as for the others who have managed to reach land, another nightmare is awaiting

The commissioner may sees himself as the savior of the euro, but many blame his recipes for the depth of the European slump

Germany is the country we cannot do without if we are to climb out of the crisis

Europe’s political families are poor representatives of the values the Union is meant to espouse

The European Commission is bent on imposing one strict priority on the member states: that of controlling the public deficit

Southern Europe has become the focus of the euro crisis, but it is in the Balkans where it is hitting hardest

The approval of gay marriage in a number of new countries this spring means a remarkable acceleration in the direction of equality

We are not looking at an economic crisis that became political due to bad management in the euro zone

Current instability in North African nation is not unlike the situation during transitions which are held up as models

The challenge is to foster regional stability of the kind Afghanistan has never enjoyed

The new migratory mobility, particularly that of the young, takes the wind out of the sails of those who might transform their countries of origin

It is no good simply blaming bad government in Athens for the massive problem caused by EU-bound immigration

Spain was not Greece when the crisis began, but four years later the similarities are growing