Europe

An exchange of sharp accusations between Azerbaijani and Polish public television channels has prompted a diplomatic protest from Baku and exposed deeper disagreements between the two countries, rangi...

King Harald V left his successors not a political programme, but a vision of Norway as an open community of equal citizens. Haakon VIII will have to preserve that model amid declining confidence in th...

Baku and Brussels intend to accelerate work on a new comprehensive agreement. But energy security and transport interests are bringing the two sides together far faster than trade rules, political ref...

The European Union said the human rights and democracy situation in Azerbaijan remained difficult in 2025, pointing to restrictions on civil society and media activities as well as concerns about the...

Türkiye’s efforts to retain Russian gas supplies while expanding fuel exports to Europe are increasing Azerbaijan’s importance as a supplier of gas with verifiable origins. However, turning Turkish te...

The Swiss foreign minister’s itinerary brings together several objectives: an attempt to restore the OSCE’s political relevance, a search for new business opportunities and Europe’s growing interest i...

The Covenant of Mayors event scheduled to be held in Brussels in 2026 is today Europe’s largest platform for local climate diplomacy. Unlike the commitments of national governments, the initiative shi...

Beginning in 2027, thousands of companies exporting goods to the European Union will have to work with a new document. This document is neither a customs declaration nor a quality certificate. It is a...

The European Union has adopted its largest batch of individual sanctions against Russia in four years, widening restrictions on the oil sector, banks, cryptocurrency platforms and the so-called shadow...

Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Berlin has taken energy and transport cooperation between the two countries to a new level. But the road from political declarations to major investment remains long — and depe...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has publicly confirmed for the first time that Baku is being used as a venue for closed Russian-German contacts whose participants are discussing possible ways to en...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Berlin on 20 July for an official visit intended to demonstrate a new level of relations between the two countries. Yet behind the talks on energy, invest...

On the morning of July 13, twenty minutes ahead of the scheduled time, Ronald Pofalla, a former chief of staff to the German chancellor, and Matthias Platzeck, a former premier of the federal state of...

On the European diplomatic map, relations between Azerbaijan and Slovakia remained almost unnoticed for a long time. Baku traditionally focused its primary attention on Italy, Türkiye, Hungary, Romani...

Over the course of two days, Brussels signaled that the European Union's policy toward Russia has entered a new phase. Between July 13 and 14, the European Union simultaneously expanded its sanctions...

On July 8, the 12th Meeting of the Ministerial/Steering Committee was held in Baku within the framework of the implementation of the Agreement on Strategic Partnership in the Field of Green Energy Dev...