Intriguingly, it has taken the EU executive more than a year to process, assess and release the findings of their first-ever such report (Photo: EUobserver) EU institutions have failed to create an inclusive culture for Europeans of colour and people…
A recent survey of more than 900 women journalists in 125 countries found that 73 percent had experienced online violence (Photo: Marco Fieber) Journalists have long been targeted for truth-telling; but the methods deployed to silence independent reporting have broadened.…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has expedited discussion of a new format for relations with Ukraine, but also for Moldova and Georgia (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) The EU’s Eastern Partnership has been a key instrument in promoting democratic development across the region…
The delegation of MEPs outside Kyiv last week (Photo: Alde) Air sirens are now such a regular part of daily life in Ukraine that they are numb to its droning tones. Some Kyivans, in an act of defiance — but…
Diana Riba in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg (Photo: europarl.eu) A week ago, the influential magazine The New Yorker published an in-depth study conducted by the University of Toronto’s interdisciplinary laboratory Citizen Lab, which showed that at least 65 Catalan…
Nato’s urban-warfare training of Ukrainian troops has proved a major asset (Photo: NATO) The recent sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, is further evidence Ukraine is actually winning the war against Russia. And it is…
Green party economy minister Robert Habeck has previously opposed a complete Russian energy embargo over concerns that this would endanger ‘social peace’ in Germany (Photo: Stefan Kaminski/Grüne im Bundestag) While the inconceivable levels of depravity of the Russian army in…
The hideous and overwhelming Palace of the Parliament building in Bucharest — even now, a guided tour lasts 2km but only takes in five percent of its rooms (Photo: Flickr/Matt Kieffer) Theres’s a cliche that backroom negotiations at big summits…
(Photo: ec.europa.eu) I still recall the joy when on 1 March, 2012, Serbia was granted candidate status for the EU. Immediately after the decision of the EU leaders, the European Integration Council of Serbia organised an extraordinary session celebrating this…
French president Emmanuel Macron’s failed attempt to dissuade Vladimir Putin from war in Ukraine, 8 February (Photo: Kremlin.ru) From the first days of Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, foreign media (and through them the official capitals) have been broadcasting…
Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jarosław Kaczyński. The current Polish leadership has expressed support for Ukraine’s EU admission — even though Poland itself wouldn't be admitted now due to its rule of law crisis (Photo: pis.org) The Polish government…
A roadsign in Vilnius, Lithuania (Photo: Facebook/Vilnius city mayor) A lot has already been written about the torture, the tactics of the KGB (Belarus’s secret police), and protest-related deaths in Minsk and elsewhere since the contested elections in 2020. Yet…