Author: Ana Palacio

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Turkish demonstrators protest the killing of Jamal Khashoggi (photo: picture-alliance/AA/M. E. Yildirim)

Trump, MbS and the aftermath

Did the global order die with Khashoggi?

Principled leaders on the world stage need to reinforce the rules on which we all depend, sending a clear signal that what happened in Istanbul is not acceptable. Otherwise, we will effectively be giving up the discourse of values and rules – a decision that could well leave us with no coherent and stabilising discourse at all, argues Ana PalacioMore

Murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi: Donald Trump's ersatz realityU.S. de-certifies Iran nuclear deal: Madmen at the helmU.S. Middle East policy under Donald Trump: A recipe for further catastrophes?
Refugees in Dikili, Turkey

Europe′s response to the refugee crisis

"Ugly, feckless and dysfunctional"

A failure to appreciate the potential scale of the problem and a marked lack of interest in addressing the refugee question at a European level, meant that Europe′s heads of state were in utter disarray when the migration tsunami hit last September. Unfortunately little appears to have changed since. An opinion piece by Ana Palacio, former Spanish foreign ministerMore

Migration and human rights: Refugee versus migrant: what's in a name?EU-Turkey deal: The alternative is IdomeniEgypt's people-smuggling mafia: Where crossings cost but lives are cheap
US Foreign Minister John Kerry with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo (photo: Reuters/B. Smialowski)

The West and the Islamic world

The despotic temptation

Unable to contain the violence, suffering, and chaos engulfing the Middle East and North Africa, Western leaders are falling back into the Cold War trap. All they want is for someone – and now virtually anyone – to enforce order. By Ana PalacioMore

Political rule before and after the ″Arabellion″: Internal colonialism and counter-revolutionInterview with Rami G. Khouri: Fragmentation of the Arab world Volker Perthes: "The end of the Middle East, as we know it": The end of Sykes-Picot?