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The October 2015 European Council and migration: no news, good news?

22/10/2015 Inside Europe

by Yves Pascouau The October European Council meeting took place after an unprecedented sequence of actions, with the Luxembourgish Presidency, the European Commission and the Council adopting and proposing a series of legislative and operational measures…

Assadland, a Russian Protectorate

15/10/2015 Russia

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by Marc Pierini Only a few weeks ago, the al-Assad regime seemed in danger of losing the swath of land from Latakia to Damascus to the assaults of the Islamic State of Iraq and the…

Unless ISIL is gone, migration to Europe won’t stop

08/09/2015 Beyond Europe

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photo source: ibtimes by Christos Mouzeviris A few days ago, a drowned child’s picture on the coast of Turkey, became the tragic poster of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. The three year old Aylan Kurdi’s washed up…

Turkish Stream: Greek Lifeline or Russian Trojan Horse?

16/07/2015 Turkey

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photo source: tenva by Eren Alp The term “Grexit”, Greece’s catastrophic exit from the Euro-Zone as a result of its financial woes, is all everyone is talking about. The worst case scenario which sees Greece returning…

Where are the Syrians?

02/06/2015 Society

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(Photo taken from time.com) by Isabelle Panasi It has already been four years that Syria has gone to war. In March 2011, the rebellion’s movement started. A large number of citizens asked the departure of Bashar…

Nuclear deal to lead Iran interfering in internal affairs of its neighbors?

10/05/2015 Iran

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DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Naveed Ahmad Tehran seems in festive mood over the likely nuclear deal. US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian…

ISIS: Iran’s Trojan Horse?

01/05/2015 Iran

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DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by M. Behzad Fatmi / @BehzadFatmi Islamic State to Iran is what Al Qaeda has been to America. The analogy might not resonate well…

Russia: short of breath for Turkish Stream?

26/04/2015 Russia

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(Photo taken from timesofisrael.com) by Piotr Stepinski & Wojciech Jakóbik (BiznesAlert.pl Editor in Chief. Energy analyst at Jagiellonian Institute) In December 2014 Russia cancelled South Stream pipeline project. It was to run through Black Sea to Bulgaria. Its…

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