If Russia meets the definition, then the only reason not to designate it as a state sponsor of terrorism is political (Photo: Kremlin.ru) The US State Department is currently deliberating over this very question. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky thinks the…
Pro-choice rally in Poland. ‘Women’s rights are human rights and these are always non-negotiable. It is time for our European treaties to reflect this' (Photo: Eric Maurice) After decades of hard global work to ensure the fundamental sexual and reproductive…
The then heads of state and government of the EU member states, with — in the centre — the late Jacques Chirac of France and the late Helmut Kohl of Germany, at the signing of the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam…
The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh last month (Photo: Screengrab/Al Jazeera) The assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was widely condemned, especially by the European Union. The image of the EU Representative in Palestine trying to mediate for Israeli Occupation…
Sarajevo. Bosnia was once the poster child for international reconstruction efforts, flooded with attention and $14bn of international aid, making it a laboratory for arguably the most expensive and innovative democratisation experiment in history (Photo: Michał Huniewicz) If Bosnia and…
With the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, southern EU member states constitute a fairly homogeneous group led by pro-European governments and pro-EU leaderships, despite their governments belonging to different political groups (Photo: morberg) Regional groupings have been gaining influence in the…
The Hungarian parliament in Budapest (Photo: Wikimedia) Dear Editor, While authors Emese Pásztor and Sanjay Sethi in EUobserver take a rather biased stance on Hungary’s state of danger due to the Covid pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, in…
The CSTO, a military alliance of Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia is meeting in Moscow next week to discuss Ukraine (Photo: kremlin.ru) The leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), including Russia, Kazakhstan,…
Are you using it, or is it watching you? The Israeli-made Pegasus spy software has been used against politicians, journalists and human rights defenders around the world (Photo: The Council of the European Union) In mid-December 2021, 60 MEPs sent…
Hong Kong protests in 2019 (Photo: Studio Incendo) On Sunday (8 May), a band of hand-picked Beijing loyalists coronated Chinese mainland marionette, John Lee, as Hong Kong’s next chief executive in a one-horse race for the city’s top job. Chosen…
In Slovenia, one of the Friday cycling protests’ figureheads was ordered by the state attorney to pay more than €50,000 in fines, allegedly to cover the costs of policing the anti-government protests (Photo: Peter Teffer) Europe Day (Monday, 9 May)…
On Lukoil’s official website it states: ‘We always guarantee you the lowest prices on the market'. But at what price? (Photo: Marta Barandiy/Promote Ukraine) For one month now, the volunteers of NGO “Promote Ukraine”, armed with photos of dead Ukrainian…