Publish What You Fund – the global campaign for aid transparency – has announced that it has placed France near the bottom of its 2014 international rankings for aid transparency, which is widely seen as yet another blow for ..
U.S.-led forces have continued their air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in the vicinity of the besieged Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane. Earlier reports said that the militants had controlled almost one-third ..
European Union anti-trust regulators are going to probe Amazon tax contracts with Luxembourg as Brussels believes that the tax deals amount to illegal state aid. The EU’s Competition Commission is readying to launch a ..
The EU summit focusing on how to promote economic growth and create jobs started in Italy on Wednesday (8 October). The summit is meant to be more low-key in comparison to other EU summits but it is expected that other topics ..
EU Governance of the Threat of Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
Bibi van Ginkel (Netherlands Institute of International Relations – Clingendael)
Somalia is the classic example of a modern state collapse. The government has ..