What’s Slovakia’s Fico up to over Ukraine?
Slovak PM Robert Fico has repeatedly said that Russia�
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Will EU climate chief Hoekstra come clean before COP28?
Is Wopke Hoekstra still in touch with McKinsey or ex-colleagues? (Photo: European Union) As Biblical floods submerge southern Somalia — a year after being gripped by drought, and with scorching…
As EU visits Havana, five truths about human rights in Cuba
Since the July 2021 protests, nearly 1,000
Beyond Ukraine and Gaza, an overlooked genocide in Darfur
The EU limited itself to condemning the 'ethnic cleansing campaign with the aim to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit community from West Darfur' by RSF on 12 November, warning about the…
The two-year lobbying campaign to sabotage pesticide-reduction
The corporate lobbying drumbeat kept banging ever louder — and in the end caused a six-month delay in the pesticide reduction negotiations, as the Council forced the EU Commission to…
What’s actually happening with EU aid for Palestine?
While the EU Commission's backtracked on Hungarian commissioner Oliver Várhelyí's tweets, the official press release muddied the waters even further, stating that 'as there were no payments foreseen, there will…
EU’s new migration pact is normalisation of racial profiling
Article 5 of the regulation makes a significant leap: police and border authorities would be able to force people who cannot prove regular entry to submit to screening not just…
Will EU give greenlight to finance industry to fuel climate crisis?
How credible are EU member states, portraying themselves as climate champions, while letting their financial industry generate profits from its deadliest investments? (Photo: Mika Baumeister) In a few weeks’ time,…
Why next European Investment Bank chief should be female
The president of the UN General Assembly is elected each year and rotates among the world�
Belgium, France, Spain must halt their Kremlin gas deals
An aerial view of a LNG tanker. While the EU has seen a significant decline in imported pipeline gas from Russia, the inflow of Russian Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo…