It is six years since the Brexit referendum, heralded by the winners as a new dawn of opportunity for the United Kingdom – freed from the shackles of Brussels. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: the voice of the people was the voice of God, so of course the outcome had to be obeyed. The people would…
“Politician, Kazakh entrepreneur and former owner of BTA Bank, the organiser of the DVK and the candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Kazakhstan” – such a description is flaunted on the YouTube channel of the world’s richest fugitive – fraudster Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is wanted in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine on charges of…
Richard Corbett, former leader of the European parliamentary Labour party, says a “clearer” Remain position could have resulted in the UK not voting to leave the EU. The former long serving MEP and close aide to ex European council president Herman Van Rompuy also admitted it was “very painful” to see the UK leave the…
Who is the Italian chef who for ten years has been transforming the Belgian way of conceiving Italian cuisine and, especially, their taste and palate of transalpine cuisine? Well, that chef is called Filippo La Vecchia and Everything. EU Political Report took the chance to get to take a closer look at someone who actually…
The Vatican should more forcefully oppose the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, a retired Hong Kong archbishop who has courageously opposed human rights violations, and Western governments should sanction responsible Hong Kong officials, said Peter Zoehrer, Director of FOREF a Vienna-based, independent human rights organisation. “Cardinal Zen courageously risked his own freedom and security…
Ukraine’s entry to the Eurovision song contest by the Kalush Orchestra on Saturday night 14 May was massively boosted by phone polls in each participant country. This followed the verdict of national juries, which had given most votes to the UK. The final scores were 631 to Ukraine – lifted by 400 public votes – to…
The 5th “Kharibulbul” International Folklore Festival has today opened in Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the festival’s opening. The Festival is being held in the “Year of Shusha” on the occasion of the 270th anniversary of the city of…
This year the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will be joining forces once again with the other European institutions to mark the anniversary on 9th May of the Schuman Declaration, where the EU all began, in spite of recent tragic events writes Cillian Lohan. The war in Ukraine has literally transformed the European agenda,…
Human Rights Without Frontiers, a Brussels-based NGO, has appealed to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan QC, to hold personally accountable and prosecute Vladimir Mikhaïlovitch Goundiaïev, known as Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, for inspiring, inciting, justifying, aiding and abetting war crimes (Art. 8 of the Rome Statute) and crimes…
We publish here in full the address of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev delivered last week to open the fifth Congress of World Azerbaijanis in the city of Shusha. Dear participants of the congress! I sincerely welcome you! Welcome to Shusha and Karabakh! First of all, let us commemorate our dear martyrs…
