12. October 2021 RT @eupinions: This question is interesting in going beyond people's personal attitude, trying so capture societal #EU sentiment. Majorities positive, upwards trend since start of #COVID19 (3/20). 🇪🇺 65% (+5) 🇮🇹 59% (+17❗️) 🇫🇷 59% (+8) 🇪🇸 72% (+4) 🇩🇪 66% (+3) 🇳🇱 62% (+1) 🇵🇱 74% (-3) https://t.co/8lJjcknyEY
11. October 2021 RT @GED_Tweet: .@MiriamKosmehl teams with Gunter Deuber @RBI_Presse on an analysis of #Russia’s Defensive #Economic Model #PaperTigerReforms #DumaElections https://t.co/uxfbA1PdNb
11. October 2021 RT @MiriamKosmehl: Why it is very unlikely that #Russia‘s political system will be able to (re)gain support through economic progress in the foreseeable future #Dumaelections @BStEuropa @BStBrussels https://t.co/wNz5yPQqfr
The European Union wants to make its neighbourhood policy in the southern Mediterranean more dynamic from 2021. ” A democratic, more stable, greener and more prosperous Southern Neighbourhood” is the goal, as noted in the conclusions of the EU Council of December 11, 2020. The EU-27 is (re)setting this high standard for its actions and […]
The highest Ukrainian court overturns reform successes The evidence that former President Yanukovych paid bribes worth millions to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine revealed how he instrumentalized the judiciary. In 2010 the highest judges enabled the ex-president, who now lives in Russia, to re-establish a strong presidential system. The decision was exemplary for the political […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only sent the global economy into a tailspin, it also initially led to a collapse in global trade as the movement of people and goods came to a standstill when the world went into a collective lockdown. Since then the international flow of goods has recovered but the crisis has […]
Winter is yet to come but the second wave of the coronavirus seems to be already upon us. New cases and a resulting second lockdown could make this crisis the worst economic crisis ever recorded. However, the coronavirus crisis is just the latest instalment of crises that plague Europe. After the Great Financial Crisis and […]
Boris Johnson is playing a risky game this week. How else should one understand the appearance of his Northern Ireland minister Brandon Lewis in the British House of Commons, who, with the introduction of a new Brexit Bill, has just announced the breach of the Brexit Agreement with the EU: “Yes, this does break international law.” Lewis […]
Last week in the streets of Beirut, French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted by the Lebanese like a messiah. In the social media of the crisis-ridden country, some people are longing to go back to colonial times, as the Levantine country was under French mandate. This is how low the country’s elites have sunk, regardless […]
Twelve million Syrians need humanitarian aid every day. The EU is mobilising donations, counting on civil society and UN aid agencies. Through the UN Security Council, Russia and China are reducing the number of border crossings into Syria. To stop the suffering, Brussels must take a stronger stance politically. The figures attesting to the suffering […]
Tuesday the military parade for the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War took place in Moscow. 23 June was declared 9 May by President Vladimir Putin: the pandemic had forced the postponement. Why 23 June of all days? Because this day is also an anniversary, on the same day 75 […]
