Giorgio Cafiero

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.

The Hun­gar­i­an PM’s stance on Rus­sia’s in­va­sion ap­pears to have ben­e­fit­ted him do­mes­ti­cal­ly but has an­gered EU part­ners.

Is­rael’s at­tack on Dam­as­cus air­port last week high­lights the im­por­tance of a deal be­tween Iran and the West to Syr­ia.

Al­ge­ria could help some na­tions switch off from Russ­ian gas but the geopo­lit­i­cal back­drop is com­plex, say an­a­lysts.

Iran and Tajik­istan are strength­en­ing ties as they look war­i­ly at Afghanistan.

Re­cent eco­log­i­cal­ly dis­as­trous con­di­tions in the Gulf are lat­est sign of cli­mate dan­ger to the MENA re­gion.