Erik Kravets
View from the EU Columnist
Erik Kravets is a founding partner of Kravets & Kravets http://www.kravets.de, a maritime and admiralty law firm providing bespoke solutions to clients navigating the North Sea and beyond. Clients involved in ship brokering and management, offshore, towage and salvage, vessel chartering, cargo handling/stevedoring and carriage of goods by sea come to Mr. Kravets for representation. (Photo: Heina Dannemann http://www.foto-dannemann.com/)
Are We Letting the Terrorists Win?
If you feel like the bad guys are winning lately, you’re not alone. China is vacuuming up cheap Russian and Iranian oil...
"No Coffee For You!"
That morning “cup o’ joe” may fall victim to the E.U.’s new supply chain laws. The supply cha...
Spice and Vice
Gather ‘round for a story about German bankers, Dutch rebels, Spanish and Portuguese royals, Asian sultanates and...
Happy Hour at Club-K
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Report Card
How did I do on predicting future events? I’ve made a lot of predictions since 2020, which is when I wrote my last &ldquo...
Ride the White Horses
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View From the EU: Vladimir's Coin-Op Laundromat
Current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. General Mark Milley, asserted in February 2022 that Kyiv could fall “wit...
Digging Deeper
A wise commercial once understood that “There are some things money can’t buy.” It turns out one of them is conv...
Advancing in Reverse
Russian pipeline gas is out; so is coal. Yet Europe is still managing to win the energy war and keep warm. As the saying goes: &ld...
When China Shanghais Your Port
Do foreign purchases of critical global infrastructure constitute a security risk? Hamburg’s 883-year-old port has a hist...