Only this month, there were more stark warnings about further hacks (Photo: European Commission) It may have been slightly embarrassing for the EU when on 29 March the Hungarian news site Direkt 36 made known how the Hungarian foreign affairs…
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, launching the independence poll plan last week in Edinburgh (Photo: Scottish Government/Flickr) When Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, launched her government’s new campaign for Scottish independence in Edinburgh last week, she sought to re-energise…
President Maia Sandu: ‘We demand no shortcuts and we don’t expect concessions' (Photo: Office of the president of Moldova) In the midst of the biggest security crisis in the region and in Europe, Moldova finds itself at a historic juncture.…
The besieged city of Taiz, Yemen (Photo: Wikimedia) On 7 April, 1,000 Yemenis gathered in the city of Riyadh, including politicians, academics, and activists. The representation of women and youth was great, and the conference came out with a new…
Migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border. Worldwide than 1.47 million refugees are awaiting resettlement (Photo: Telegram) This World Refugee Day (20 June) the global picture on displacement is darker than ever before. With a record 100 million people forcibly displaced from…
Balkan countries have demonstrated the shallowness of the EU's vision of enlargement (Photo: Biblioteca Nacional de Espana) Ukraine’s dogged fight to defend its democracy against a brutal, unprovoked Russian attack deserves the West’s full support: Ukraine’s struggle for survival is…
Ukraine’s membership in the EU would reinvigorate Europe's tired institutions (Photo: European Parliament) The second item on the European Council’s agenda for its June 23-24 summit in Brussels is listed simply as “Ukraine.” The Council will discuss granting Ukraine European…
Eurogas, the gas lobby, has been pushing a narrative to promote fossil gas and greenwash its image to decision makers (Photo: jiva) The European gas lobby annual conference, taking place this Tuesday (14 June) in Brussels, is set to be…
The rules say the EU Commission's regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are — lobbied in writing (Photo:…
If Russia meets the definition, then the only reason not to designate it as a state sponsor of terrorism is political (Photo: Kremlin.ru) The US State Department is currently deliberating over this very question. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky thinks the…