Climate change is “real, rapid and relentless,” an international conference in Brussels on the Arctic was told. The comments were made by Mike Sfraga, who chairs the influential U.S Arctic Research Commission, and who gave an address to the Arctic Futures Symposium. The event was told that the impact of global warming is accelerating four…
The European Policy Centre (EPC) a key Brussels based think tank, has announced that Brigid Laffan will succeed Herman Van Rompuy as its president. Van Rompuy has decided to step down from his active position as the President of the EPC after serving in that capacity for seven years. However, he will continue to be involved…
In former times and as we now see, there are individuals who want to reshape the world and regional relations. They tend to invent a plausible excuse to justify their aspirations, as if they have been offended, blocked in their ambitions or not appreciated… In fact, everything looks much simpler. The ambitious person we are…
Thanks to “unprecedented mobilisation” generators have just been despatched from Brussels to the war-torn country to help provide energy in the bitterly cold winter months. Four generators left the European Parliament on Wednesday. They were purchased in Belgium and result from a fund raising campaign for Ukraine. This was spearheaded by Andrzej Halicki, who is…
During a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists made cutting criticisms. Speaking on behalf of the Group, Chairman Prof Ryszard Legutko pointed out that “in the strict sense it is only a quasi-parliament, alienating millions of voters.” Prof Legutko said, “Madam President, Prime Ministers. Two minutes of truth,…
The flags of Russia and France show the same colours but in a different order, and it seems someone in Paris has overlooked this difference. The events of the past few weeks make us suspect that the Kremlin is dictating the new French foreign policy. Just a few days ago, a group of 17 MEPs…
In 1936, no one could have imagined that Hitler would start a war that destroyed half the world. In 2022, the whole world witness the genocide launched by Putin against Ukrainians hoping that this would not affect the rest of the world. Before World War II, the same misconception led to tragedy. Russia must be…
The events of the past week have been punctuated with new brutal acts of violence by the terrorist Russian Federation throughout Ukraine, as they attempt to destroy as many important infrastructure facilities as possible to intimidate Ukrainian civilians. Russia wants to intimidate Ukraine and at least slightly change the losing course of events for the…
The 42nd Joint Parliamentary Assembly among the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the EU (ACP-EU JPA) has come to an end in Maputo, Mozambique. The Assembly has raised animated debates and put forward possible common solutions to face global crises like climate change, pandemics, terrorism, poverty and human rights. The S&D Group’s delegation said it…
China, it has been alleged, is a “more dangerous and insidious threat” to the West than Russia because it is more embedded in its institutions. That is the personal view of the author of a new book which is highly critical of the CCP. “We need to wake up to this,” is the message from…
