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Redefining El Salvador – Open talk with Amb. Julia...

Posted by Erik Molnar Jr. | Apr 1, 2025 | Diplomacy, Interview

Same challenges for a challenged partnership: the ...

Posted by eudne | Mar 31, 2025 | Diplomacy

The 77th anniversary of the United Nations

Posted by Erik Molnar Jr. | Oct 24, 2022 | Diplomacy

Redefining El Salvador – Open talk with Amb. Julia Emma Villatoro Tario

by Erik Molnar Jr. | Apr 1, 2025 | Diplomacy, Interview | 0

Julia Emma Villatoro Tario, Ambassador of El Salvador to Austria, has had a distinguished diplomatic career spanning Vienna, Brussels, and Luxembourg. Dedicated to advancing El Salvador’s global standing, she promotes education and security initiatives, including a scholarship program with Hungary. Committed to diplomacy, she works to strengthen international partnerships and opportunities for her country.

Same challenges for a challenged partnership: the EU, the United States and the Western Balkans

by eudne | Mar 31, 2025 | Diplomacy | 0

The shifting transatlantic alliance, driven by the Trump administration’s policies, is reshaping political dynamics in the Western Balkans. As the EU and U.S. drift apart, EU enlargement remains uncertain, raising concerns over regional stability. Domestic political crises, external pressures, and geopolitical tensions further complicate prospects for democratic reforms and European integration.

The 77th anniversary of the United Nations

by Erik Molnar Jr. | Oct 24, 2022 | Diplomacy | 0

24 October marks United Nations Day, the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the UN Charter entered into force. In the past 77 years, the UN has worked to maintain international peace and security, promote social progress, improve living standards and support human rights. There is no other global organization with the legitimacy, convening power and normative impact of the United Nations. No other global organization gives hope to so many people for a better world and can deliver the future we want.

War: Russia’s attack on Ukraine

by Erik Molnar Jr. | Apr 4, 2022 | Diplomacy | 0

The Russian political elite will never accept that they lost Ukraine. Ukraine being an independent state on its own is seen by the leaders of Russian military and secret service bureaucracy as a bad joke of history from which we need to move on. And they have been busy trying to drive it back behind the apron of Mother Russia in many different ways, mostly achieving the opposite of what they intended. Nonetheless, Russian efforts to undermine the operability of the Ukrainian state have not been without success.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa – The President of Portugal

by Dora M Kovacs | Jun 30, 2021 | Diplomacy | 0

The 72-year-old law professor and TV personality is known among the Portuguese for his easy-going style. He is also a former leader of the centre-right Social Democratic Party, and has worked closely with the centre-left minority Socialist governments to help tackle the pandemic. He is strongly pro-European and describes his politics as “social right”.