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Alexei Nalany, here pictured in 2013 — before his poisoning with Novichok, followed by a 19-year sentence to an Arctic penal colony, where he died in unknown circumstances one year ago (Photo: Person Behind the Scenes) One month on from…
It is never too late to do the right thing and stop austerity 2.0. (Photo: Matt Tempest) “A week is a long time in politics,” a British prime minister once quipped during his country’s crises of the 1960s. But even…
No one would deny that wolves periodically kill farm animals — but the political attention that these large carnivores receive is disproportionate to the damage they cause (Photo: Darren Welsh) Over the past few years, farming and hunting organisations have…
The European Parliament’s forthcoming deliberations are decisive. The outcome will either pave the way for a competitive digital euro by 2026 or stifle its potential (Photo: Pexels) Over the next few weeks, the European Parliament will negotiate and vote on…
The Samoa Agreement was signed in November 2023. As of February 2024, 12 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries have not signed the agreement (Photo: European Union) Dear Editor, In response to Gilbert Onyango’s article, Energy and minerals disputes overshadow new…
Europe’s weaknesses have become clear as the Ukraine war drags on. Despite national and joint incentives to boost domestic production, Europe's supply chains have fallen short of fulfilling the needs of the Ukrainian resistance (Photo: Yarden Sachs) The EU’s internal…
The war in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated that human lives can be totally dependent on companies’ behaviour during conflict (Photo: UNICEF) EU companies will be actively involved in rebuilding Ukraine, in fact, they have already started as the war continues.…
Hungary’s Viktor Orban (second right) with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and Emmanuel Macron of France, Germany’s Olaf Scholz, Italy’s Georgia Meloni, and EU Council president Charles Michel, ahead of a EU summit (Photo: European Commission) On 13…
(Photo: Markus Spiske) Editor’s note: We’ve partnered with the newsletter Brussels Dispatches, launched by Wilf King and Pierre Minoves, respectively working for the European Parliament and Commission. The newsletter provides an accessible, personable, high-level overview of why the upcoming EP…
The majority of refugees are women and children — one-in-four Ukrainian women now living outside the country (Photo: European Commission) It is generally accepted that the longer refugees are out of their home country the less likely they are to…
The estimated cost of reconstructing Gaza is $20bn [€18.5bn] — an extremely conservative estimate, given the scale of the devastation, which UNCTAD said would take the rest of the century to repair (Photo: UNRWA) As Europe awaits an Israeli assault…
Local communities from the Antwerp region suffering from the shocking ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS pollution caused by 3M and others, nor green groups, were invited (Photo: Wikimedia) EU politicians will cosy up with Big Toxics at a secretive event on Tuesday…