The Deadly Battle of Waterloo

Photo by Chris Van Houts It is  hard to imagine it now with the site long since turned into farmland but when Napoleon Bonaparte was famously defeated by the Duke of Welling at Waterloo in 1815, the bitter conflict left a battlefield covered with thousands of corpses and badly injured soldiers. But what happened to…

EU Japan Relations

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  Photo by Liam Burnett-Blue on Unsplash   A senior MEP has welcomed the prospect of closer cooperation between the EU and Japan. Reinhard Bütikofer, the European Parliament’s Rapporteur on EU-Japan relations, was speaking after the “Hydrogen High-Level Business Forum” in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Japan is the EU’s second-biggest trading partner in Asia after…

Kyrgyzstan Cooperation

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  Photo by Irene Strong on Unsplash   The EU and the Kyrgyz Republic signed an Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (EPCA). This, say both sides, represents an “important milestone” in the strengthening bilateral relations. The Agreement will provide a new legal basis for reinforced political dialogue and deepening cooperation in “many mutually beneficial areas.”…