Russia, Putin, Wagner — and Africa
Vladimir Putin meeting the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, in Moscow on 17 June – before the weekend military uprising (Photo: Kremlin) Russia returning to Africa as a geopolitical…
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Poorer students from east Europe priced out of Erasmus
With only €600
The Kakhovka dam disaster — what next?
Survivors in Kherson, the day after the destruction of the dam (Photo: Wikimedia) The destruction of the Kakhovka hydropower dam has precipitated the manmade disaster unfolding in Ukraine, the impacts…
Germany’s new security strategy — much ado about nothing
German chancellor Olaf Scholz, as the Munich Security Conference. Much of the government�
Big Oil lobbyists should be banned from climate summits
COP 27 was held in the UK last year (Photo: UK Government) As fires, floods, and extreme climate damage keep accumulating, the big question is how do we justly exit…
EU’s new supply chain laws over-reliant on self-certification
Governments should not outsource oversight of mineral supply chains to industry-led initiatives (Photo: Responsible Sourcing Network) Public awareness has grown about exploitation and abuse in global supply chains. Many consumers…
Moldova’s free press is not the rosy picture Brussels imagines
In Moldova, only those media outlets that portray Moldovan politicians in a flattering light are allowed to operate freely (Photo: Stop Media Ban) As the Republic of Moldova inches towards…
The EU lacks political will to give asylum seekers decent refuge
A man crosses a dry river full of garbage at a makeshift camp adjacent to the Moria reception and identification centre on the Greek island of Lesvos (Photo: UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis)…
The other side of Bulgaria’s Holocaust history is needed
King Boris III, Bulgaria's authoritarian ruler, meeting Adolf Hitler in 1941 (Photo: Wikimedia) With a new, pro-European Bulgarian coalition government installed in Sofia after 30
EU’s one-off chance to influence Laos taking over ASEAN chair
Despite its tourist image, Laos has 'long been an authoritarian state with no tolerance for public criticism' but increasingly 'it appears to be also becoming a criminal state�