Following is a list of links to all opinion articles, commentary & analytical pieces written by Ivan Dikov since he joined The European Views in June 2018 as freelance chief editor.
The European Views is a Paris-based online media specializing in coverage of the European Union and its member states.
The links appear in reverse chronological order till June 2018. Last updated October 19, 2021.
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Parakeet Scream after 16 years: Merkel Has Disappointed Even as EU Owes Her Tons of Gratitude
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Nord Stream 2 Saga Ended in Win for Putin, German Business. Did Trump Defend EU’s Interest Better than Germany?
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How West Picks Wrong Allies: Taliban Got Armed to the Teeth as Many NATO, EU States Are Defenseless
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EU Is Afghanistan, US Is US, and Taliban Is a Bunch of Powers Seeking to Defeat EU
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Pratasevic Defeated Belarus’s Lukashenko with Forced Video Confession. The EU Must Be Much Stronger
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‘Vaccine Nationalism’ Is Relatively in Order, and the EU Has Handled It Much Better than the US
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Barnier’s Unprecedented Call for Suspending Non-EU Immigration to France Warrants Dwelling Upon
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Uighur Sanctions Finally Show EU’s Rough Awakening on China as a ‘Responsible Stakeholder’
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EU Shouldn’t Beat Itself Up over 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War: That’s Its Ultimate Power Projection Challenge
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Germany Can’t Have Its (Navalny) Integrity and Build Its (Nord Stream 2) Pipeline Too
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The EU Helped Create the Erdogan of Today. Why the Shock and Awe over Sofagate?
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EU Has Handled the COVID-19 Pandemic Well, Like Any Other Crisis It Wasn’t Built For
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Bulgaria’s Veto on North Macedonia’s EU Talks: Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing of the 1990s Former Yugoslavia Type
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The EU Survived Trump. Now It’s Gotta Survive Biden
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Salvini’s Migrant Ship Trial: How the European Establishment Keeps Boosting the Far Right
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Post-Brexit EU Is Finally a Union of True Humility. And That Is a Great Thing!
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Brexit Is Britain’s Final Opt-out. From Responsibility! (And What Did We Use to Talk about?)
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The Brady Bunch of Eurasia: Putin, Erdogan, Borisov, Vucic; Jets, Missiles, TurkStream, Balkan Stream, et. Al.
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2020: The Year of Brexit (R.I.P. EU Britain (1973 – 2020)), and Who Is How Old in EU Years
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2019: The Year the Far Right Sustainably Surged in Europe and Why It Will Keep Growing
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EU’s Ukraine War Conundrum in 2020 and Franco-Germany’s Failure in Relations with Russia
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Macron’s NATO Bashing, Global Cluelessness Could Throw Europe into Despair
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30 Years of Post-Communism with Well-Deserved Gloom. But Why and By Whom?
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Can Franco-Germany Handle Becoming a Vanguard of Democracy after Brexit?
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Macron’s ‘Africans over Eastern Europeans’ Comment Shows EU Must Start Getting Its Priorities Right
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Looking behind France’s Shameful Veto on Albania, North Macedonia’s EU Accession Talks
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Post-Brexit Britain Will Be Fine. It’ll Just Be a Downshifter: New Zealand 2.0 x 10
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‘Killing’ Two Birds with One Nazi Salute: the Racism Outburst at the Bulgaria – England Match
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Rewarding Erdogan, Forgoing the EU: the Moral from Volkswagen’s New Factory in Turkey
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Ukraine Is the Most Important Country for the EU. Here’s Why
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High Time to Rip Off the Brexit Band Aid. Rip Fast, Rip Hard, and Once and for All
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Perhaps East Germany Is Not Atavistic but Rebels against Some Extremes of the Old West
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The Backstop for All Future Backstops: Didn’t the Brits Think of the Irish Border When Voting for Brexit?
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Stop Calling the EU a ‘Bloc’. It Isn’t. And Not for the Reason You Think
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Trump Seems to Hate the EU. Is It Because He Already Had a George W. Bush Florida Orange Juice Moment?
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EU Defied US over Iran’s Nuclear Program with INSTEX. Was It Worth It?
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How Long before Russia’s Risky Toying with Europe’s Far Right Really Backfires?
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New EC Chief Ursula von der Leyen: A Disappointment Already or the First to Make Sense?
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Eastern Europe: (Still) the Most Crucial of All Challenges Facing the European Union
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Look Back in Anger: How the Brexit Debate Was Framed All Wrong
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Resolve the EU – NATO Discrepancy: Make the EU Collective Member of NATO!
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EU Must Adopt ‘EU English’ as Its Official Working Language after Brexit. Here’s Why
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