Ukraine’s is as credible a candidacy for EU membership as can be (Photo: European Parliament) On the fifth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky submitted an EU membership application for his country. Ukraine chose Europe in its…
Ukrainians fleeing into Moldova on 27 February. If a puppet regime is installed in Ukraine, Moldova may be next (Photo: Moldova government) As soon as the war in Ukraine started, concerns were raised over Ukraine’s immediate neighbour, the tiny 2.6…
Up to 500,000 people marched in Berlin against the war 10 days ago – now thousands upon thousands of Ukraine refugees are arriving at the capital's train station (Photo: Matthew Tempest) Vladimir Putin’s tanks are firing at kids. Huge numbers…
Ursula von der Leyen just announced an additional €500m – but the needs are unprecedented and will get bigger (Photo: European Parliament) Overnight and unprovoked, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises — and…
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, pictured here in 2012 minus his €23,000 gold watch (airbrushed out by the official press service, but still visible in reflection on table) (Photo: Russian Orthodox Church press service) As Russia’s brutal…
The burning of the Euromaidan building in Kyiv in 2014 (Photo: Wikimedia) The lives of millions of civilians in Ukraine hang in the balance. The renewed threat of a war between Russia and Ukraine doesn’t bode well for millions of…
Armenia troops in Nagorno-Karabakh (Photo: nkrmil.am) The 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) between Armenia and Azerbaijan that left thousands dead did not put an end to the longest conflict in region. Active hostilities have largely stopped, given the presence of…
Brussels and Rabat seemed committed to preserving the contested EU-Morocco deal (Photo: Western Sahara Resource Watch) Since hostilities between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front in Western Sahara resumed in November 2020, the EU has been reluctant to play an…
Théodore Géricault painting of The Raft of the Medusa, which hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Photo: Wikimedia) In 1816, the Frigate of Medusa, sailing from France to Senegal for the purpose of colonisation, sank in Mauritanian waters. Of the…
Two trillion euros, in fact. Such huge financial injections into EU economies can come with well-documented risks of embezzlement, corruption and corporate capture of public money (Photo: Michal Jarmoluk) At over two trillion euros, the long term EU budget and…
Cross-border money flows have boomed this century – unless you want to give it away (Photo: snorski) This season of gifts is a time to reflect on the joy of giving and on the good that we can do for…
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019 (Photo: etan liam) On Sunday, the Hong Kong SAR regime is set to appoint a parliament packed full of communist party loyalists in the city’s first general election since Beijing’s overhaul of the electoral…