Photo by Tyler Nix on Unsplash The Republic of Moldova is a small faraway country facing many challenges. Today it no longer faces them alone. Economically it is fragile, with its main exports being insulated wire, wheat, wine and sunflower seeds – not the most promising foundation for long-term prosperity. Climate change is also a major issue: in…
Photo by Max Griss on Unsplash The callous barbarity of Russia’s blitz of civilian targets in Ukraine surpasses even the terror of the London blitz by Hitler. Putin has copied the Nazi strategy and developed it to new levels of depravity. Russia is continuing the genocide of Ukrainians and intensifying its missile terror. The only way to stop…
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Today there are rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence, changing the way we work. With an increasing population and a warming climate, technology is also potentially helping how the world feeds itself. Selective breeding of crop varieties as practised in the past can now be accelerated by planned genetic enhancements, replacing the…
Photo by Viktoria Evseenkova on Unsplash Ukraine remains firmly on the EU agenda, both with EU leaders and for MEPs. The ongoing war in the country will be the subject of a week of special events in the European Parliament next week, back after its recess. Before that, though, at their meeting in Hiroshima, we, the leaders of…
Photo by Roger Bradshaw on Unsplash The next General Election in the UK is likely to be at least a year away, but already the two major political parties are moving into overdrive with national conferences and pronouncements from senior party figures. After their successful local Council election results in early May Labour is increasingly occupying the centre…
Photo by Ildar Garifullin on Unsplash The annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will be held in Uzbekistan On May 16-18, the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will be held in Samarkand, under the general main theme – “Investing in Resilience”. The…
Photo by Abdulaziz Mohammed on Unsplash Debate about the humanitarian and security situation in Sudan was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 5th May. Anna van Densky, MEP Márton Gyöngyösia and James Wilson were interviewed by Bjorn Hultin. Photo by Radouan Bachiri This interview was first published in EUBriefs, and is reprinted here with the permission…
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Former UK Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher had different visions for the country in their very different times, and each left a lasting legacy. Today in France President Macron knows it is important to modernise the outdated pension system and has determined to achieve reform. The French people are not…
Photo by Bogdan Dada on Unsplash The coronation of King Charles III would always be a special moment in history, but future historians may regard an earlier announcement as his “crowning achievement”: the opening of sealed royal archives to reveal details of the monarchy’s historic involvement in the slave trade. This initiative is most welcome. What would now…
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash The transmission system operators of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and SOCAR signed an important Memorandum of Understanding in Sofia today, 25th April. The signing ceremony of the “Memorandum of Understanding for encouraging cooperation among Bulgartransgaz (Bulgaria), Transgaz (Romania), FGSZ (Hungary), Eustream (Slovakia) and the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)”…
