Russian missile strike on a nine-storey apartment block in Dnipro, 14 January 2023 (Photo: Ukraine.ua) One year after Russia’s assault on Ukraine, diplomats have yet to translate bold promises to defend international law into a concrete plan to hold president…
Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, now held in an undisclosed Iranian prison, and facing 40 years and 74 lashes (Photo: Amnesty International) Olivier Vandecasteele, an experienced and respected Belgian humanitarian worker, is being arbitrarily detained in an unknown location in…
The traditional defence of fossil fuels is that ‘the show must go on because what would happen if it didn’t?’. The counter-factual is now 'What will happen if the show continues? (Photo: Tim Dennell) The most shocking thing about the…
Antwerp’s Central Station – the surrounding city quarter is the diamond capital of the world (Photo: Wikimedia) Anyone walking around the area surrounding Antwerp’s Central Station can hardly ignore it. Antwerp is the diamond capital of the world. Thanks to…
Life won’t change for the disabled in Europe until the EU fully implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Photo: Sophie Deracrouix) When they asked us at the Sharm-El-Sheik airport to flatten the back of my…
Money-laundering. The sanctions unit within the European Action Service will also need beefing up in terms of capacity, financing, and human resources (Photo: Images_of_Money) EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that crimes of corruption would be included in…
788 women were murdered in 2020 by a family member or intimate partner, across 17 EU member states (Photo: Natalie Hua) Friday (25 November) is the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and we’ll hear from…
Through the auction, consumers could be paid several times the market price of gas for not consuming gas. That may seem counterintuitive, but it simply reflects the fact that there is an ‘externality’ when consumers reduce their demand (Photo: Tori…
European citizens are cold, and cutting back on energy – but the balance sheets of fossil-fuel giants have spiked (Photo: Jon Candy) This winter, times are tough for millions of Europeans. Three-in-four of us are cutting back on everyday items,…
Migrants who set off from Libya by sea, being rescued (Photo: Flickr) This month, the plight of more than 1,000 refugees and other migrants stranded at sea after being denied a safe place to disembark in Europe has, once again,…
(Photo: European Parliament) A recent report from the well-respected organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) raises serious questions about the extent to which Turkey — which still holds and benefits from EU-applicant status — is guilty…
Boycott Qatar: ‘Both the construction and hospitality sectors have been rife with human-rights violations, with documented abhorrent treatment of migrant workers — without whom this World Cup wouldn’t be possible' (Photo: Matt Tempest) European banks and investors have invested heavily…