Kirsty Hughes is an analyst of European affairs who was formerly senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and coordinator for the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN)

Recent articles

Turkey's internal problems are intensifying its political and cultural fissures and putting its orientation towards the European Union in question. Kirsty Hughes reports on the gathering turmoil.

Kirsty Hughes returns to her homeland after almost a year in south Asia and sees a different country.

Their world turned upside down in the great Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Six months on, the fishing communities of southeast India struggle to rebuild their lives. Kirsty Hughes reports from a forgotten frontline of reconstruction.

“The European Union is at a major turning-point. It has attempted, through an unprecedented process of open debate and dialogue, to design a strategic role and direction for itself in the 21st century. For now it has failed.” Kirsty Hughes on Europe’s crisis of democracy.

An Indian Ocean microcosm of global politics – democracy, development, and election fraud, arguments over sovereignty, violence and pluralism – what can Zanzibar teach the world? Kirsty Hughes talks to Juma Duni Haji, a leader of its main opposition party, the Civic United Front.