A s part of our Monday Talks series, we have hosted Josep Maria Terricabras and Ivo Vajgl in cooperation with Science 14 to discuss the current state of the Catalan crisis. The two senior members of the European Parliament…
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M anifold were the sighs of relief after ISIS was defeated in Mosul and Raqqa in the course of 2017. Yet, while its territorial caliphate has been reduced significantly, the online caliphate…
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A rmenia recently found itself in the odd position of having the eyes of the world turn towards it for the past two weeks.
Eyebrows were first raised in March of…
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I n the real world, unfortunately, there are no superheroes to save the day. When the destiny of the European Union and its achieved level of integration - what is called…
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T he European Union does everything it can to reduce the number of smokers in its member states. What appears to be a laudable goal, has turned into a fact-free obsession…
T his week Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress in Washington D.C. to testify over two consecutive days in relation to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The CEO of Facebook addressed a series of allegations, previously assumed but before now,…
B y removing internal border controls, countries party to the Schengen Agreement effectively abandoned a core element of state sovereignty in favor of freedom of movement. But they embarked on this federal project without building the…
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T he current debate around Islam in Germany reveals that Germany has not yet made up its mind as to whether it is ready to embrace its new status a country…
[toggler title="Editor’s Note" ] ‘zapret’ (запрет) is the Russian word for ‘ban’. [/toggler]
T here is much to unpack in the US Treasury Department’s latest sanctions expansion, announced on 6 April. Seven Russians explicitly labeled…
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C rime in Britain has been on the rise recently. London has overtaken New York City in murder rates, with increases in knife and gun crime becoming a major concern.
In…