Tomasz Froelich is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He also serves on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation for Relations with Central Asia. Froelich’s party AfD is currently Germany’s main opposition party. Despite the elections being relatively recent, the latest polls show the AfD leading nationally. As ...

Türkiye faced another eventful week. A cartoon related to the Palestinian-Israeli War published in Leman Magazine. While an investigation was launched against the magazine’s staff for allegedly resembling the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet Moses, the ruling party heavily criticized the magazine. In addition, groups gathered around the magazine attacked the magazine building and shouted slogans against the Republic, Mustafa ...

By Fernando Esteche, from Buenos Aires / Argentina The 17th BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of the global order. Beyond the headlines of notable absences and diplomatic declarations, the agreements reached reveal both the bloc’s transformative potential and its internal contradictions, especially in a context where Western hegemony faces unprecedented structural ...

By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The world keeps turning rapidly, scattering its major pieces out of place. The global political arena is in chaos… The Atlantic’s 500-year advance has come to an end. The old order is collapsing, but a new one has yet to be established. Struggles continue on many fronts, and the likelihood of new ones emerging is high. ...

By Halim Gençoğlu Last month, I was in Germany for an international conference. I would like to share a few things I observed at the Berlin Humboldt Museum. There is a section dedicated to Islamic art; however, the Shi’a section has been removed, reportedly due to the tension between Iran and Israel. This clearly reflects a double standard in favor ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone for the first time since September 2022. The call took place amidst escalating tensions in the ongoing war in Ukraine and after the “12-day war” between Iran and Israel ended. We asked Odile Mojon-Cheminade, political analyst from the Schiller Institute about the reason for this critical meeting ...

By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / CHINA A recent article published in the South China Morning Post—owned by Alibaba Group’s founder and one of China’s wealthiest figures, billionaire Jack Ma (Chinese name: Mǎ Yún)—was titled “New wave of globalization could be China-led”. The piece was authored by Wang Huiyao, the president of the Beijing-based think tank “Center for China and ...

We are continuing our interviews with European voices. This time, we asked Danilo Della Valle about the attack on Iran, the NATO summit, the global transition to multipolarity and European perspective on global peace. Della Valle is a Member of the European Parliament and also member of the Italian Five Star Movement. How do you evaluate the recent attack on ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The return to the world scene by Donald Trump, albeit more ambitious and with greater political desperation this time, has revived debates over the American foreign policy future—particularly in Asia. His caustic diplomatic style, transactional diplomacy, and disdain for multilateral organizations mean Trump’s foreign policy is not much sophisticated. While Washington might see his assertiveness as ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Loyal readers of this column likely thought I would write this week about the repercussions of the Israeli and US aggression against Iran. I too believed it was necessary, but after reading Fernando Esteche’s brilliant article in PIA Global entitled “First Thoughts on the Ceasefire in the War Against Iran, ” I have nothing to say; ...