EU elections - Part II: A profile of recent four elections (2004-2019)

By Neha Tresa George The following profile looks at the 2004 to 2019 EU elections which is held every five years.  2019: Identity Democracy (ID) breaks through with 73 seats competing for the first time  The 2019 European Parliament election was conducted between 23 and 26...

Dagestan: Terror attacks expose Russia’s vulnerabilities

In the news On 23 June, gunfire and intense fighting took place in an Orthodox church and Jewish synagogue in central Derbent and Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan, with 40 held hostage. According to the Interfax media, Russian security services blocked the perpetrators using military...

Thousands protest against overtourism and impact on housing in Spain

By Padmashree Anandhan  CROATIA Gunman attack kills six On 22 July, Croatian media reported on a gunman shooting six in a nursing home in Daruvar. The town in located 130 kilometres from Zagreb, five were found dead including a care...

Germany-Russia Relations: What Next?

NIAS/CSS/CRPR/U/IB/15/2023 NIAS Area Studies Brief No. 61 NIAS Europe Studies 31 July 2023 Russia has emerged as the most divisive issue in the European Union (EU) over the past three decades. In the 1990s, EU members found it relatively easier to settle on a common approach towards Russia...

Prof D Suba Chandran is the Dean of the School of Conflict and Security Studies at NIAS. He heads the Science, Technology and International Relations. He coordinates the NIAS Europe Studies.

Sourina Bej is a doctoral candidate and KAS-EIZ scholarship holder at the University of Bonn. Her research for the Europe Studies at NIAS includes studying political populism, protest movements, migration and social inclusion, and religious extremism in Western Europe.

Padmashree Anandhan is a Project Associate at NIAS, Bangalore. She is associated with the NIAS Europe Studies. Her research focuses on issues relating to politics, protests, maritime and NATO' operations in the Western Europe and Nordic.

Rosemary Kurian is an Undergraduate Scholar under the Department of International Relations, Peace and Public Policy at St Joseph's University, Bangalore. Her areas of interest include climate change, and populism and policy governance.

Alka Bala is an undergraduate student at the Department of International Relations, Peace and Public Policy, St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore. Her research interests include social, economic and migration policies in Europe, developments in maritime security and climate change.