Europe

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...

The second day of Ursula von der Leyen’s South Caucasus tour proved no less substantial than the first. After Baku, the President of the European Commission arrived in Yerevan, where she received a no...

Relations between Azerbaijan and the European Union are experiencing what President Ilham Aliyev described as “unprecedented momentum.” He made this statement in Baku during a joint briefing with Euro...

The latest resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe against Azerbaijan is unlikely to trigger immediate practical sanctions. But its significance goes far beyond another polit...

Keir Starmer’s resignation has become more than just a domestic political crisis for Britain. It has raised a broader question: whether the country is still capable of sustaining its previous foreign...