The French Socialist Party held the second round of its leadership race on Thursday (19 January). The two candidates, Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, are both claiming victory amidst mutual accusations of irregularities in the voting process. On Friday morning,…
Bulgaria is facing new general election in the spring, the country’s fifth in two years, after the Socialists on Friday (20 January) gave up on plans to form a working government. The Socialists, who had the third and final chance…
Taiwan’s representative, Bi-khim Hsiao, calls herself a “cat warrior” walking a delicate diplomatic line. China calls her a troublemaker who could trigger a war. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Leopard tank is designed to compete with the Russian tanks being used in the invasion Ukraine’s defence minister has said he had a “frank discussion” with his German counterpart about German Leopard 2 tanks,…
The allies differ on strategy for the coming year and the more immediate question of what Ukraine needs ahead of a major offensive in the spring. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
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 worker, is being arbitrarily detained in an unknown location in…
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 'What will happen if the show continues? (Photo: Tim Dennell) The most shocking thing about the…
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. Antwerp is the diamond capital of the world. Thanks to…
The once internationally applauded Finnish education system has failed to evolve and has deteriorated, found a new report published by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture on Thursday. While other countries have improved their performance, Finland has been stranded,…
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 2,000km of high-speed rail (Photo: Centralny Port Komunikacyjny) With Poland and Finland pledging to…