Photo by Erica Magugliani on Unsplash International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) will be marked this week with a series of special events. These kicked off on Tuesday when the European Commission hosted an international conference, ‘Remembering the past. Shaping the future’ in Brussels. The conference was opened by Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas. It was organised by the Commission in partnership…
Photo by Nelson Ndongala on Unsplash An MEP has given a guarded welcome to the outcome of the recent summit between the EU and U.S. The European Union and the United States of America held their second summit in Washington, DC and comment has come in on the negotiations. German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer, transatlantic spokesperson of the Greens/EFA…
48 years ago on 15 August 1975, Bangladesh witnessed the darkest dawn in the history since its independence in 1971. The Father of the Nation of Bangladesh and then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, popularly known as “Bangabandhu” (Friend of Bengal) along with most of the members of his family including his ten-year old son was…
Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash Special commemorations will take place in Charleroi next month in memory of one of the worst ever disasters in Belgium. On 8 August 1956 some 262 miners perished in the Bois du Cazier in Marcinelle. They included 136 Italians, more than half the victims. Today, the site is preserved as an industrial heritage…
Fancy a blast of history and a reminder of what some call Britain’s finest ever military victory? If so, make a beeline this weekend to the Domain de la bataille de Waterloo 1815 for a host of historical events. You will find yourself back in the middle of the 19th century at the time of…
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 Håkon Grimstad on Unsplash Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has called on MEPs to work to eradicate antisemitism in Europe and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. His comments coincide with International Day of Commemoration today Friday 27 January. Herzog opened his address to members in Brussels by saying: “I stand before you as the…
24 February 2022 was the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The morning that changed the life of every Ukrainian. For many years Russian propaganda tried to change the concept of “war” and its beginning, but the citizens of Ukraine and the world community have long known that a full-scale war was unleashed by…
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk submarine, Putin is burying the Russian army in Ukraine August 12 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Kursk submarine disaster, when its entire crew of 118 submariners died. 22 years ago, the Kremlin dictator began the deliberate destruction of the Russian army, which he threw into…
An international team of military veterans working alongside archaeologists on the battlefield of Waterloo have discovered a rare complete skeleton of a soldier from the battle 200 years ago. As many as 20,000 men fell on a single day in June 1815 in the epic battle near Brussels in Belgium that forever ended Napoleon’s dreams…
