In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been escalating his hybrid war against the Western world. However, his annual speech to Russian ambassadors on November 18 saw Putin at his most uninspired and defensive. The Russian leader’s long list…
In recent months, international attention has been focused on a mounting border crisis manufactured by Kremlin-backed Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka on the European Union’s eastern frontier. As this border crisis now slowly deescalates, all eyes have turned to the nearby…
As international leaders and the world’s media continue to speculate over Moscow’s latest military build-up on the Ukrainian border, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly moving ahead with the slow-motion annexation of east Ukraine. Alarm over Russia’s intentions has been…
Özlem Türeci, BioNTech’s chief medical officer, was among the four winners in the sixth edition of the Women of Europe Awards held on Wednesday (1 December) by the European Movement International and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL). The award ceremony…
Valérie Pécresse, a veteran politician who served as minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy, will go into a runoff as favourite to be picked as the centre-right Les Républicains’ candidate in the French presidential election in April. Pécresse will face…
EU Commission home affairs chief Ylva Johansson has welcomed Croatia’s handling of media revelations showing border officers beating migrants despite NGO reports of continuing violence at the border with Bosnia. A months-long collaborative investigation between different European outlets revealed on 6…
Events since 2014 have made it obvious that Russia will go to almost any lengths in order to re-establish control over Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine has already cost more than 14,000
War drums are beating in Europe. For the second time this year, Moscow is assembling up to 100,000
Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently pushing hard to secure fast track certification for his Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but these efforts will likely prove no match for the European Union’s anti-trust laws and regulatory system. On November 17, a…
French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart Boris Johnson that the UK held “