(Photo: ec.europa.eu) I still recall the joy when on 1 March, 2012, Serbia was granted candidate status for the EU. Immediately after the decision of the EU leaders, the European Integration Council of Serbia organised an extraordinary session celebrating this…
French president Emmanuel Macron’s failed attempt to dissuade Vladimir Putin from war in Ukraine, 8 February (Photo: Kremlin.ru) From the first days of Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, foreign media (and through them the official capitals) have been broadcasting…
Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jarosław Kaczyński. The current Polish leadership has expressed support for Ukraine’s EU admission — even though Poland itself wouldn't be admitted now due to its rule of law crisis (Photo: pis.org) The Polish government…
A roadsign in Vilnius, Lithuania (Photo: Facebook/Vilnius city mayor) A lot has already been written about the torture, the tactics of the KGB (Belarus’s secret police), and protest-related deaths in Minsk and elsewhere since the contested elections in 2020. Yet…
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…