May Day: Mega-rich blocking economic justice for workers
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos earned €44bn in 2020 in the EU — but paid no corporation tax (Photo: palomaleca) As the German playwright Berthold Brecht once said: “Two men—one rich,…
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After Bucha, there can be no business as usual
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…
Ankara’s reluctance to join sanctions against Russia
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd right) meets EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council president Charles Michel (2nd left) (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) Most Turks, according to the latest…
Eastern Europe: Between hammer and anvil
Russian president Vladimir Putin with German chancellor Angela Merkel in August 2021 (Photo: kremlin.ru) Despite the many changes in eastern Europe in recent decades, Russia and Germany still fail to…
Pegasus: Are we becoming a Europe of spies?
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…
How Putin primed Kazakhstan for evading EU sanctions
Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued shoot to kill orders against protestors (Photo: Kalabaha1969) The events in January in Kazakhstan, previously known as an island of stability in an otherwise turbulent…
Le Pen’s new EU rhetoric masks same old ideas
Marine Le Pen (centre in front row) in her time as an MEP (Photo: European Parliament) In her main French presidential election manifesto, Marine Le Pen is rather grandiloquent, but…
Nato training: How Ukraine is actually winning against Russia
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…
Weaponising Europe: Why EU should buy arms for its states
Joint procurement can be the starting point for true force integration (Photo: 7th Army Training Command) Wars have often been catalysts for new European defence initiatives. In 1950
EU welcome for Ukraine refugees — a new gold standard?
Middle East migrants trying to enter Poland from Belarus last year (Photo: Telegram) Amid the horrors of the war in Ukraine, Europe’s response to the Ukrainian people fleeing is one…