Havard Halland

former senior economist at the World Bank, Professor at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh)

Long-reads and interviews

Security at a crossroads. How US and Russia push for a new European order through "peace" in Ukraine

Russia and the US are jointly destroying the remaining international rules established after World War II. "The consequence will be new armed attacks," they acknowledge in Europe…

4 December 2025 — Sergiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, from Brussels

Macron’s successor: is it possible to prevent the far right from coming to power in France?

Is it possible to stop the far right’s victorious march toward the presidency? And which French politicians are capable of doing so?

28 November 2025 — Charlotte Guillou-Clerc, For European Pravda

Capitulation in a new guise: what Donald Trump’s "Peace deal" actually offers Ukraine

We agree to a Peace Board headed by President Donald Trump. But we will never accept a "Capitulation Board" on Putin's terms.

24 November 2025 — Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Kyiv Security Forum