With Donald Trump increasingly viewing Brussels as an economic enemy rather than an ally, setting a course for greater European independence from the United States is the bloc’s only realistic option
«As a journalist for 40 years I have tried to explain the world. You can only fight what you understand. I firmly beleve that». Reporter and French writer of Armenian descent, Pascal Manoukian is witness of most important international conflicts between the years 1975 and 1995.
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Eu’s Commission is trying to restore public trust after last year’s dramatic re-authorization of the herbicide. But unless it can demonstrate that its decisions on the food chain are rooted in scientific fact, Bruxelles will not regain authority
Bulgaria has been longing to join the Eurozone and the Schengen free-travel zone ever since it acceded to the EU 11 years ago. By assuming the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU this month, Sofia was supposed to be edging closer to that goal. But there was an embarrassing backdrop...
Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano's speech at the time of taking over the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe certainly marked a positive note: having put Ukraine on top of its priorities. But it could be the only one.
The great Brexit debate of 2016 lent the pulpit to countless critics of the EU, with the opacity surrounding the institution's lawmaking emerging as a major sore point both in Britain and beyond. To many, the EU remains a closed-door club of elitists tasked with shaping the legal, economic, and...
A deluge of new corruption probes and legislation passed last month are set to stymie Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau (NABU), a relatively new institution in a country that, despite reforms, still ranks among the most corrupt in the region.
Angela Merkel, Germany’s old new chancellor, last week kicked off coalition talks between her Christian Democrats (CDU), the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a “Jamaica” coalition government. The talks for such a constellation, already tested on the state level with rather mixed success, face a rocky...
Digital elections cost less and could allow more citizens to make their views known. A goal that should be a priority for every democratic country.
«Israel, a nation of refugees, closes its gates in the faces of the present refugees. The United States, a nation of immigrants with the hope of a better future, refuses to give this hope to new immigrants».
Techniques and methods of online deception: from persuasion to psychological conditioning.
Artist South African William Kentridge has left his mark along the River Tiber’s banks.
There’s something ironic, as well as very scary, in Jacqueline Bhabha’s latest book on the migration crisis.
Bitcoins are mined using computer calculations. This operation can generate individual profits but the cost is exobitant in energy consumption.
Anna Franceschini’s art is influenced by the incredible power of our great star.
Nuclear weapons: who has them, the chances of a conflict, the global implications.
«They drive each other, they keep pulling each other in different directions and yet they came together all the time, like the yin and the yang». Cordial and approachable in person as much corrosive and immediate in his works, Texan writer Joe R. Lansdale is speaking about Hap and Leonard,...
The internet of things has huge potential. However, collective intelligence is generated by the participation of all inhabitants in shaping the new cities.
The Jubilee of 2000 gave rise to a church that asked its flock to forgive it for its mistakes. With Pope Francis the sins have become “terrible” and global.
The crisis that multilateral institutions are experiencing could have serious repercussions on the world’s stability. The system seems unable to manage the challenges posed by globalisation. The European Union must pull its socks up.
Constantly ignored in the divisions of land and power, the Kurds are still prominent in the political gambits in the Middle East, alongside the West.
A crisis of the Chinese economy would have an unavoidable impact on the global economy. China’s economy is slowing and US trade tensions are adding to woes. The Chinese authorities are now stimulating credit again, which is unlikely to end well.
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