Since the BRICS+'s challenge to the liberal international order has to do more with various particular issues than with an attempt to upend the norms that underpin the global order, the G7 should negotiate these issues in a step-by-step approach with the BRICS+. The G7 should accept the...

A succession of disruptions to world trade have put the reorganisation of inter­national supply chains high on the political agenda. The difficulties began with the trade war between the United States and China, deepened with the Covid-19 pan­demic and culminated in the sanctions and...

The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine have posed major challenges - in different ways - to Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries as well as to the European Union (EU). At the same time, these international crises have revealed how little resilience there is...

Europe is committed to revitalising its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. This is evidenced by the numerous high-level visits from Germany and the EU to Latin American countries since the beginning of the year. In early June, the European Commission presented a "new agenda" for...

The summit in Brussels on 17-18 July will mark the end of a long eight-year hiatus in bi‑regional meetings between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Between 1999 and 2015, conferences were held every two or three years. Since the last...

Since the BRICS+'s challenge to the liberal international order has to do more with various particular issues than with an attempt to upend the norms that underpin the global order, the G7 should negotiate these issues in a step-by-step approach with the BRICS+. The G7 should accept the...

Im März endete die 52. Sitzung der UN-Suchtstoffkommission (CND), die die Grundlagen der globalen Drogenkontrollpolitik für die nächste Dekade bestimmt und die Entwicklungen seit der Sondersitzung der UN-Generalversammlung zur Drogenproblematik 1998 evaluiert hat. Das damals formulierte Ziel,...

Many of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's appearances on the world stage can rightly be called provocations. His verbal radicalism and regular threats to cease supplying oil to the United States make international headlines. But his rhetorical gestures cannot be dismissed as the megalomania of...

The 52nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) concluded on March 20, 2009 in Vienna, setting the fundamentals for international drug control policies for the next decade. At the same time, it evaluated the results of the resolution drafted during the 1998 UN General Assembly...