Slovak PM Robert Fico has repeatedly said that Russia's war against Ukraine is not our war, and that Slovakia would not send a single bullet to Ukraine (Photo: council.europa.eu) Anyone claiming to know where Robert Fico’s government will lead Slovakia…
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 heat waves nearing 60 degrees Celsius asphyxiating Brazil, the newly-appointed…
Since the July 2021 protests, nearly 1,000 people have been detained on the island for political reasons (Photo: Spencer Everett) I am writing these words in exile. I left Cuba almost exactly a year ago, after months of being threatened…
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 danger of another genocide in Darfur (Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran…
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 do more studies (Photo: Aqua Mechanical) The severity of climate…
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 be no suspension of payments' (Photo: Wikimedia) EU development policy…
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 at the border, but anywhere within an EU country (Photo:…
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, the EU will decide on the content of its Corporate…
The president of the UN General Assembly is elected each year and rotates among the world's regions. Why not also rotate the gender of the president every other year? (Photo: Tim Mossholder) The news that Werner Hoyer will be stepping…
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 at European ports has been increasing (Photo: Venti Views) The…
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Even amid the horror in Gaza, some EU member states have been busy doing business with Israel approving lucrative arms deliveries, in the full knowledge that they will be used against a civilian population under siege (Photo: UNRWA) As the…