On 8-10 May, an international conference on “The Future of Europe. Perspectives of Contemporary Developments” was held in Sibiu, Romania, on the margins of the European Council summit of 9 May....
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EKRE (the Conservative People's Party of Estonia) has largely copied its agenda from outside, following broader trends in the Western world that are amazingly similar in different...
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"The changing European political party landscape requires mainstream parties to rethink their identity and agenda from the left-right divide into a broader set of identifiers," following Estonia’s...
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EFPI Director Kristi Raik gave an interview to Helsingin Sanomat on President Kersti Kaljulaid’s visit to Moscow and meeting with President Vladimir Putin on 18 April. She argued that in the...
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European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) published a Commentary by Kristi Raik on the possible inclusion of the radical right in Estonia’s next government coalition. Estonia is not about to...
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The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) has published a Report titled “The changing global order and its implications for the EU”, written by Katja Creutz, Tuomas Iso-Markku, Kristi...
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Kristi Raik, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute of the ICDS discussed Estonia’s security policy in the context of the parliamentary elections to the Finnish Public Broadcasting Yle....
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Estonia’s Reform Party moved toward forming a government after upsetting Prime Minister Juri Ratas’s ruling coalition, vowing to exclude populists who’d threatened to shake up the political...
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The jump in support for Estonia’s nationalist and Eurosceptic EKRE party mirrors the trend in other European countries where populist parties have exploited a fear of migration, despite there being...
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The article by Kristi Raik on "The Ukraine Crisis as a Conflict over Europe’s Political, Economic and Security Order" has been published in the academic peer-reviewed journal Geopolitics (Vol. 24,...
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