ARTICLES AND ANALYTICS
Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, now held in an undisclosed Iranian prison, and facing 40 years and 74 lashes (Photo: Amnesty International) Olivier Vandecasteele, an experienced and respected Belgian humanitarian…
The traditional defence of fossil fuels is that 'the show must go on because what would happen if it didn't?'. The counter-factual is now �
Antwerp's Central Station – the surrounding city quarter is the diamond capital of the world (Photo: Wikimedia) Anyone walking around the area surrounding Antwerp’s Central Station can hardly ignore it.…
The envisaged airport for Poland's Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) — a large-scale infrastructure project designed to interconnect the wider region of central Europe through more than 2,000
A street protest by hard-right Sweden Democrat supporters – while the party are not officially in government, they now yield considerable influence over policies (Photo: Wikimedia) New year, new Swedish…
Spain's municipal elections in May will provide a telling litmus test of the political climate ahead of the parliamentary vote in December (Photo: Fotomovimiento) As Europe ushers in 20
In a concession to opponents, Emmanuel Macron would not raise the pension age to 65, and phase-in the increase to 64 over a period of seven years (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) Emmanuel…
A European 'Foreign Agents Registration Act' would systematically expose the countless lobbyists and influence-peddlers on foreign powers�
Life won't change for the disabled in Europe until the EU fully implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Photo: Sophie Deracrouix) When they asked us…
(Photo: Kiefer/Flickr) Within a few years, central banks have shifted from worrying about the lack of inflation — and possible shift into deflation — to confronting the prospect of a…