Florian is a Staff Writer for the HIR. Originally from Germany, he is interested in transatlantic relations and human rights. He has previously also written about the prospect of a European Army.
Law & Diplomacy
"Whether it concerns monitoring disease outbreaks, human rights violations, or nuclear energy programs, Open Source Intelligence can help overcome the problem of self-reporting that has so far undermined the authority of UN organizations."
China
"The normative power that the European Union has developed throughout the past decades has been massively strengthened through their increased cooperation with China."
Employment & Immigration
"Capitalizing on human defenselessness renders informal labor possible at the expense of stateless persons, particularly in newly industrialized countries in Southeast Asia like Malaysia."
Europe
"While North American and European international security interests might have once been two sides of the same coin, this perception has masked what is possible under a united European front."
Europe
On August 24, 2015 at 4:15 am, aboard a small German ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, a baby named Sophia was born. Her Somali mother had been rescued as part of the EU’s ENUAFOR MED Task Force [https://www.operationsophia.eu/about-us], primarily intended to