A pilot plant in Germany. Carbon-capture and storage is a techno-fix promoted by big polluters that allows them to continue to pollute (Photo: Vattenfall) Despite droughts, floods, heatwaves and crop failure, the oil and gas industry is using sleight of…
Macron’s European Political Community (EPC) has been derided as a deceptive ploy to sideline the enlargement process, or simply a characteristically grandiose but vague proposal coming from the French (Photo: European Parliament) The most important event of the Czech EU…
Free trade agreements offer more than prosperity and growth in the European Union — they are also an important instrument to reduce dependencies on autocratic regimes such as Russia and China (Photo: Timothy M Roberts) Free trade agreements offer more…
‘Friend or Foe?’ France has already been chosen as the location of the new King’s first official visit abroad (Photo: BBC news/screengrab) The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey some 10 days ago was a ceremony which…
Uyghur detainees in 2017 (Photo: Wikimedia) On 31 August, minutes before the end of the now-former UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet’s mandate, her office finally published its long-overdue report on the human rights situation in the Xinjiang…
The Kremlin. ‘We believe that, in the current situation, Vladimir Putin can only profit from an isolation of Russia’s democrats — whether in exile or in Russia itself' (Photo: davidgordillo) With Vladimir Putin’s escalation of the war against Ukraine through…
Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg war crimes trials (Photo: Public Domain) Both before and after Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Soviet lawyer Aron Trainin proposed to criminalise the crime of aggression. The statute…
Analysis of holders of European Parliament access passes reveals that over 70 percent of lobbyists for Google and Meta have formerly worked for governmental bodies at the EU and member state level (Photo: Matthew Tempest) Brand new analysis by EU…
Without quantified targets, national capitals have no idea how much CO2 they want to remove, and by when. The direction of travel is obscure, transparency and accountability are weak (Photo: DerGuy82) To keep global warming below 2C or 1.5C, carbon…
The state of Islamophobia in Europe continues to be problematic (Photo: Laura Hasani) History was made back in March, when the United Nations unanimously declared the 15th to be an annual International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution was accepted…
Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech is just the most recent example of turning a blind eye to the EU’s own budding autocrats and the EU's democratic deficit more broadly (Photo: European Parliament) Unsurprisingly, the State of…
Ursula von der Leyen. ‘The European Commission is too slow to act. While struggling to pay for food and energy for months, European citizens have had to wait for the State of the Union speech to hear about most of…