Are you using it, or is it watching you? The Israeli-made Pegasus spy software has been used against politicians, journalists and human rights defenders around the world (Photo: The Council of the European Union) In mid-December 2021, 60 MEPs sent…
Hong Kong protests in 2019 (Photo: Studio Incendo) On Sunday (8 May), a band of hand-picked Beijing loyalists coronated Chinese mainland marionette, John Lee, as Hong Kong’s next chief executive in a one-horse race for the city’s top job. Chosen…
In Slovenia, one of the Friday cycling protests’ figureheads was ordered by the state attorney to pay more than €50,000 in fines, allegedly to cover the costs of policing the anti-government protests (Photo: Peter Teffer) Europe Day (Monday, 9 May)…
On Lukoil’s official website it states: ‘We always guarantee you the lowest prices on the market'. But at what price? (Photo: Marta Barandiy/Promote Ukraine) For one month now, the volunteers of NGO “Promote Ukraine”, armed with photos of dead Ukrainian…
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…