Colin Stevens

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than regulation can keep up. For policymakers, the critical question is how to narrow this gap and regulate technology that evolves in months across institutions that move in years. The European Union has played a leading role in answering that question, building the most comprehensive AI regulatory framework through the […]

Former ICTY prosecutor finds no evidence of criminal conduct in Chiren drilling dispute, as EPPO investigation continues. An independent review by Steven Kay KC, one of Britain's most experienced criminal barristers and a former senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has found no evidence of criminal fraud in connection with […]

The EC faces calls to reflect evidence on harm reduction, illicit trade, retail impacts and differing product risks as it prepares a revision of the Tobacco Products Directive and Tobacco Advertising Directive The European Commission’s Open Public Consultation on the future of EU tobacco and nicotine regulation has closed, bringing to an end a process […]

US Vice-President JD Vance urged Ukraine to stop attacks affecting tankers carrying Kazakh crude through Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, highlighting Kazakhstan's vulnerability to the war just as Astana and the European Union seek to develop alternative energy and transport corridors bypassing Russia. US Vice-President JD Vance intervened with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after […]

Kazakhstan holds elections for the first convocation of the Kurultai. The vote marks the country's final transition to a unicameral parliamentary system and completes a pivotal stage of institutional reforms under the leadership of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. An experienced diplomat and statesman, President Tokayev is skillfully constructing the new political system of a

Parliamentary elections on 23 August completed the formation of Kazakhstan’s new legislature — the Kurultai — the central element of the country’s renewed political system following constitutional reform.Seven political parties took part in the vote. Turnout stood at 74%. The first convocation of the Kurultai has cemented the completion of the institutional transition and marked […]

An anti-corruption investigation reaching from Ukraine's Presidential Office into the management of state-owned Sense Bank has raised questions far beyond the alleged laundering of UAH 150 million. At stake are the governance of nationalised assets, the independence of Ukraine's anti-corruption institutions, a planned bank privatisation, an international arbitration worth more than $1 billion and Kyiv's […]

EU Reporter journalist Derya Soysal was among the members of the press given direct access to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana after he cast his vote in Kazakhstan’s first elections to the newly established Kurultai — an opportunity that offered a rare first-hand insight into the President’s thinking on political reform, government, youth, artificial intelligence […]

Thirty-five years after Kazakhstan closed one of the most notorious nuclear weapons testing grounds in history, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has used the anniversary to deliver a pointed message to the world’s nuclear powers: resume dialogue, strengthen arms control and ensure that nuclear testing never returns. At a time when the international security order is under […]

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to allow 20 ZYN nicotine pouch products to carry a specific reduced-risk claim has created a striking contrast with the direction of European Union policy, as Brussels prepares new product rules and proposes EU-wide taxation of nicotine pouches. The United States Food and Drug Administration has authorised […]