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Neglecting democracy comes with a heavy price tag for every European citizen (Photo: European Commission) Ten years ago, the Arab Spring was a clarion call for democracy, a moment of collective awakening that led to the formation of the European…
Vladimir Putin meeting the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, in Moscow on 17 June – before the weekend military uprising (Photo: Kremlin) Russia returning to Africa as a geopolitical player has caused much concern in the West, particularly in…
Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron in Beijing. (Photo: ec.europa.eu) Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, in a recent commentary, offered a hint of how the EU may adjust its three-part policy towards the Chinese…
A fishing vessel trawling. (Photo: EU commission) There is a false division between refugees and economic migrants. Refugees are victims of war and persecution, while economic migrants, we are told, have the choice to stay put. But what if their…
The EU’s €30m for 16 waste management facilities was a much-needed intervention to address the grave health and environmental implications in Lebanon (Photo: RITE) Across Lebanese neighbourhoods, uncollected garbage piled up steadily, rotting in the blazing heat, and stinking the…
Scandinavian economies are the most resilient. Italy is the least resilient of the major EU economies. And no country in the EU has a less resilient economy than Romania (Photo: Aaron Greenwood) Various bodies — the likes of the UN…
Now the commission has outsourced developing its merger policy to none other than a consultancy that helps Google push through mergers and acquisitions (Photo: Aray Chen) The European Commission keeps hiring consultants with a vested interest to guide them in…
Ukrainian children in a bomb crater from a Russian missile which hit a playground in Kyiv, October 2022 (Photo: Myroslava Barchuk) As the world immediately knew within minutes of its announcement, on 17 March the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued…
The science is clear: burning wood to produce energy makes climate change worse for decades or more, time we do not have to avoid the worst harms from climate change (Photo: Sukhdev Singh) On Wednesday (29 March), EU co-legislators are…
The European Union is the only international organisation to be welcomed to the US ‘Summit of Democracies', along with 26 of its 27 member states (Photo: European Commission) The EU is at odds with itself. It wants to be a…
Mineral-mining in Democratic Republic of Congo — an estimated 15-30 percent of the DRC's cobalt is mined by artisanal and small-scale miners (Photo: Fairphone) Last week, the European Commission unveiled the Critical Raw Materials Act to reduce its dependence on…
Asylum-seekers arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos (Photo: Aegean Boat Report) On Thursday (23 March) and Friday, the leaders of EU member states will get together in Brussels to discuss the future of EU migration policy. We already know…