Europe

I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to spend my childhood, adolescence and even my youth in a…

Even Before NATO Expansion, the West Sought to Strangle Russia Economically. By John V. Walsh The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO.  It took the form…

We, civil organisations engaged in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the central Mediterranean Sea, express our gravest concerns regarding the latest attempt by a European government to obstruct assistance to people in distress at sea. A new law decree, signed by the Italian…

Spain has the lowest inflation rate in the EU. What are the Spanish under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing differently—and better? First and foremost, gas price caps and the rent brake are curbing prices. Next year, they will go one…

In a move described as anti-humanist, the new Italian government led by the ultra-right-wing leader, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has resolved to crack down hard on humanitarian vessels rescuing migrants from the sea. Among other measures, a new decree aims…

In most Muslim-majority countries, there are severe restrictions on religious dissent. In such cases, the problem is associated with the alliance between religious and political authorities. I argue that the alliance between Islamic scholars (the ulema) and state authorities was…

While attending the Nuclear Ban Forum in Vienna (just after the 40th Anniversary of Faslane Peace Camp in June 2022) I interviewed Hauke, a peace activist from Germany. Here, he shares his experience protesting nuclear weapons at Faslane in Scotland.…

Since September, Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has grown progressively precarious. Clashes between ethnic Serbians and Kosovo security forces saw Serbia’s military placed on high alert in November. Several high-profile Serbian officials, including President Aleksandar Vučić,…

In the summer of 1927, where there is the bluest sea in the world, Simone Veil was born. Her love for her family and for justice, and that air of freedom she breathed as a child in the Mediterranean [region]…

[Our agency publishes the full statement of the Campaign for Access to Asylum, which is placed in the indictment against Panagiotis Dimitras, a well-known lawyer and founding member of the Greek Observatory of the Helsinki Accords – EAPA. Dimitras is…