Artistic events bring people together, overcoming divisions and barriers, and as such, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an “undisputed element” of the European shared cultural identity, which could this year help renew the call for peace on the continent,…
The meeting is meant to reinvigorate the crisis response as vaccination and testing rates lag and many countries try to put the pandemic behind them. President Biden convened a virtual Covid summit from the White House last fall, on the…
The EU’s strategy resulted in disastrous global vaccine scarcity outside Europe during 2021, which prolonged the pandemic and caused far too many preventable deaths (Photo: Jernej Furman) It’s long overdue that the European Parliament starts its hearing of the Special…
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)…
The UK government appears to have shelved plans to introduce a bill that would override the controversial Northern Ireland protocol. Government officials confirmed on Thursday (5 May) that the Queen’s speech next Tuesday, 10 May, which sets out the government’s…
The former personal lawyer to Donald J. Trump withdrew from an interview scheduled for Friday after the panel would not let him record it, his lawyer said. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
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…