Giorgio Cafiero

An­a­lysts say height­ened fric­tion in the Balka­ns may serve the Krem­lin’s in­ter­ests but cast doubt over a show of force.

Eth­nic frac­tures in the West­ern Balka­ns, in­clud­ing in Koso­vo’s Serb-pop­u­lat­ed area, cre­ate trou­ble for the EU and US.

Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi ar­rives in Sau­di Ara­bia to much fan­fare, un­like the low-key wel­come af­ford­ed to US Pres­i­dent Biden.

Is­raeli pres­i­dent’s vis­its to Bahrain and UAE can be in­ter­pret­ed as a de­sire to con­sol­i­date diplo­mat­ic gains .

Al­though co­op­er­a­tion with Moscow con­tin­ued, king­dom also showed sup­port for Kyiv as it sought role of use­ful me­di­a­tor.

Neu­tral­i­ty re­mains pop­u­lar in Aus­tria, which has sent hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance and non-lethal weapons to Ukraine.

The killing of al-Qae­da leader in Kab­ul will add to mis­trust be­tween Tal­iban and the West pro­long­ing group’s iso­la­tion.

War­saw’s long-pend­ing se­cu­ri­ty ex­pec­ta­tions with­in NATO are be­ing sat­is­fied fol­low­ing Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine.

Riyadh and Tel Aviv have edged clos­er to full nor­mal­i­sa­tion, but a deal is un­like­ly dur­ing Biden’s trip to Jed­dah.

Al­most as soon as the Ukraine war broke out, Fin­land, which shares a bor­der with Rus­sia, em­braced the West­ern al­liance.