
Editorial | EU–Azerbaijan relations are a blueprint for authoritarians
The EU looks the other way as Azerbaijan jails journalists and crushes dissent. Officials in Tbilisi are surely taking note.
The EU looks the other way as Azerbaijan jails journalists and crushes dissent. Officials in Tbilisi are surely taking note.
According to official readouts of meetings held, the EU’s energy cooperation with Azerbaijan was one of the biggest topics on the agenda.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s visit to Baku is the first time a German president has been to the country.
The spat appears to have originated from a now deleted Instagram post from the German president containing the Nagorno-Karabakh flag.
The Erasmus+ programme in Azerbaijan has effectively been unofficially suspended.
The statement came after Azerbaijan accused Armenia of violating the ceasefire.
The EU Parliament has called on the EU to end its gas dependency on Baku, and for the imposition of sanctions against Azerbaijani officials over human rights violations in the country, and individuals who threaten Armenia In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs cited ‘worrying reports’ of Russian gas being rebranded as Azerbaijani for export to the EU, thereby bypassing Western sanctions. They also noted Azerbaijan’s deepening ties with Russia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2