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Many farmers are deeply conservative. They resent both the concentration process of recent decades, which has put an end to many small family farms, and the current government&#0

Coming of age in the 2020s looks very different from the 1990s and 2000s (Photo: Simon Maage) In a world coloured by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation,…

Once the lifeline of the continent, millions of vaccines have gone to waste (Photo: Pexels – Martin Lopez) Proposals aimed at overhauling the EU’s compulsory licencing system offer hope for…

The Chernihiv Stadium of Desna Chernihi, in northern Ukraine, also known as the Yuri Gagarin Stadium was destroyed during the siege of the city (Photo: Wikimedia) On 18 October 2023,…

Currently, the intelligence activities of the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) remain excluded from all political and legal oversight (Photo: Bundeswehr.de) When the German chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered his famous “Zeitenwende”…

Viktor Orban with Vladimir Putin in Beijing in October. Although the legal means for the European Parliament to influence the procedures of the European Council are limited, here is a…

Hodson makes it very clear in this readable book (with real people in it) that it is the member states who have most of the power in Brussels — and…

Democracy may currently be battered and on the defence, but young people still believe in it — just like the young eastern Europeans in 1989 who broke the walls in…

While knowing that sleeping on the back is recommended for their babies, parents may end up believing that sleeping on the stomach is also just fine (Photo: Unsplash) Each year…

A less sexy, yet critical point for an up-to-date strategy is shifting gears to improve the electricity grid (Photo: Thomas Despeyroux) At the end of October, the EU-US Task Force…