On 17 November 2018, nearly 300,000 people began the first in a series of anti-government protests triggered by a proposed fuel tax increase in France. Yellow vests protests have occurred every Saturday since, and are now in their 14th week. Tim Geschwindt examines the underlying drivers of the protests and assesses what lies ahead for the yellow vests…
In this article, we examine the main kidnapping trends and incidents of 2018 from around the world, and look at some emerging trends likely to persist in 2019.
On 26 August, a fatal street brawl in Chemnitz sparked three weeks of anti-migrant protests in eastern Germany. In this article, Tim Geschwindt assesses the drivers and implications of increasing far-right sentiment in the country.
Tim Geschwindt analyses the threat of Islamist terrorism in Western Europe using the recently published Global Terrorism Database statistics.
On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal (Skripal), a former Russian military officer, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia, were found slipping in and out of consciousness on a public bench, close to a shopping centre in Salisbury, a city in Wiltshire in the UK. They were rushed to the Salisbury District Hospital.
James Jackson from S-RM Cyber Security investigates the series of attacks on ProtonMail to pull out some valuable lessons on what motivates various threat actors and how you can respond when you’re in the crosshairs.
At German chancellor Angela Merkel’s request, ten EU leaders gathered on 28th June for an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the crisis of migration in Europe.
In light of a global increase in cyber-attacks and piecemeal mitigation efforts by states, Genevieve Frydman argues that governments and businesses are likely to continue to be targeted in Europe and North America.
The brutal assault and rape of a black youth worker in the Parisian suburbs lays bare the poor relations between French police and local communities, relations that are both a manifestation and driver of broader socio-economic and political cleavages in France, writes Carilee Osborne.
S-RM asked Julian Davies, Head of Consulting, to give his insights into the threat Islamic State poses to the West in 2018 following its losses in the Middle East last year.
Former Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont's determination to hold an independence referendum has led to an historic stalemate in Spain that is threatening political and economic stability, writes Genevieve Frydman.
The latest terrorist attacks in France suggest that operations carried out in the name of Islamic State are evolving, which is likely to prompt a shift in European security policy, writes Lara Sierra-Rubia.