T he Israeli government got into a diplomatic disagreement with the Polish government this week after the former registered its displeasure with the latter’s initial approval of a bill exculpating Poland and Poles from…
[dropcap size=small]A padlock stuck on a railroad switch was enough to block Murmansk’s oil terminal for about seven hours, one of the latest episodes of a bizarre corporate conflict in one of the world’s…
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T he last six months saw a lot of headlines on the ongoing trade dispute between…
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T he idea of the EU-passport is not a silver bullet solution but could actually make a larger difference for many people. Since the beginning of 90’s the freedom of movement…
O n 14-15 February, 2018 NATO Defence Ministers will meet in Brussels again to discuss the main threats the world faces nowadays. NATO consists of 29 member states but 22 of them are simultaneously…
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E arly February I took part in a parliamentary mission to Israel. Not even a week later, Israel and Iran clashed for the first time at the Syrian border, which we…
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T ERRORISM VS ORGANIZED CRIME — It is no secret that after the fall of the “Iron Curtain”, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent opening of the borders, radical…
B rexit apart, the crisis that currently threatens to challenge the very principles upon which the EU is based, concerns the refusal of Eastern European states, especially Poland and Hungary, to adhere to what…
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O n last Tuesday, the European Parliament announced that it will set up a Special Committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides. This move comes after the re-authorisation of the…
N o doubt that there is a new and strange alliance in Turkey’s current political landscape. However, to understand the full awkwardness of this co-operation, one needs to take a few steps back in…