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The European Union is a group of 28 countries in Europe. Outside continental Europe, the EU includes Cyprus and several overseas territories. It has more than half a billion inhabitants.

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Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece - German police officers, representatives of the EU s border management agency Frontex, on the Greek island of Lesbos, look at a dinghy with migrants crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on October 17, 2015.

The other Frontex debate: how border geopolitics will define the future of Schengen

Photo of Germany's Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz in the Budestag during the debate on the 2021 budget debt brake

Germany’s Debt Brake and Europe’s Fiscal Stance after COVID-19

Photo of Charles Michel, President of the European Council, on a video call with Indian Prime Minister Modi and EU Commission President von der Leyen

The EU-India Summit

Why Relations Will Remain At Sea

Eine Europa-Flagge, mit ihrem Kranz aus fünf goldenen fünfzackigen Sternen, hat sich in einer Statue am Reichstag verfangen.

Beziehungsarbeit mit den Bürgern Europas

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) meets with European Council President Charles Michel (L) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Ankara, Turkey, on April 6, 2021.

A Wicked Problem

How to Cooperate with Collusive States?

Photo of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the European Union headquarters in Brussels

To the Viktor Go the Spoils

What Orbán Needs to Form a New Political Camp in Europe

Photo of a press conference on Dec. 8, 2020, on a new EU counter-terrorism program, a strengthened mandate for Europol, and progress made in the framework of the strategy for security union

Blurry Counterterrorism

A Chance for Russia, A Risk for Europe

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