On Saturday, Russia marked Victory Day with an air force parade broadcast by major TV networks, fireworks and many events across the country. Although Russia has the...
Opinion
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Amid the global outbreak of the new coronavirus, several undemocratic countries have been trying to take advantage of the crisis and depict themselves as accountable...
Since December 2019, when US sanctions were imposed on companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the finalisation of the project has been...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed, and to a certain extent, amplified, the political, economic and social vulnerabilities of our societies. For a country that has for...
Article 56 of the Geneva Convention makes it clear that an occupying state is obliged to ensure and maintain satisfactory healthcare and hygiene conditions in occupied...
The Polish government has been heavily criticised by the country’s opposition, some international institutions and much of the Western opinion-forming media for pushing...
Last Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered a “heartfelt” apology to Italy and announced an action plan worth three trillion euros – which...
On April 10, the euro group agreed on a 500 billion euros rescue package that made the Bulgarian government regret that it had decided to delay its plans to join the...
Polish President Andrzej Duda recently signed into law an economic support package – the so-called “anti-crisis shield“ – designed to aid society and business amid the...
Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of ever closer union in Europe, held the mantra that crises are opportunities. The coronavirus pandemic certainly falls into the...
“The conscience of the world cries out for a testimony of truth,” says the inscription on the Katyn monument at the Gunnersbury Cemetery in London, the very first such...
While civic activism was critical to both the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia, a question remains as to whether or not civil...
