US intelligence agencies have noted that Russia has deployed more than a hundred thousand troops to its border with Ukraine, and that there are plans for another invasion. The U.S. government thinks that Russia may have up to 175,000 troops stationed near
PARIS (Parliament Politics Magazine): Teachers are staging a nationwide walkout across France in protest of the government’s handling of the coronavirus issue. Despite a recent rise in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, French officials have made keeping schools open a
BERLIN (Parliament Politics Magazine): In an extraordinary trial, a German court condemned a Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction. Anwar Raslan, 58, was accused of being linked to 4,000 people’s torture in a jail known
As the UK left the EU, post-Brexit opportunities for UK businesses is now more challenging than ever. This change will present opportunities for collaboration and innovation, which will be crucial for businesses that wish to survive and prosper in a world where
WHO Headquarters, Geneva (Parliament Politics Magazine): The World Health Organisation has warned that more than half of the European population could be infected by the highly communicable Omicron variant within the coming two months. It states it’s too early to treat the
BERLIN, GERMANY (Parliament Politics Magazine): The highest-ranking official, former colonel Anwar Raslan, to be convicted for atrocities committed in Syria by a German court. Victims and human rights activists in Syria are awaiting the outcome of the world’s first criminal trial on
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the pound has risen to its highest level against the euro. Despite an encouraging drop in European unemployment this morning, sterling hit €1.1995, its highest level since February 2020. Even after the impact to hospitality in
BRUSSELS: The European Union is facing mounting pressure to relax limits on airport landing and take-off slots in order to reduce the “ghost flights” numbers that airlines use to keep their slots. Carriers claim that the necessity to use their slots to
French authorities informed that more than 105,000 individuals have taken part in rallies across France against the implementation of a new coronavirus permit. Unvaccinated people would be barred from public places under a new draught law. Demonstrators in the capital of France,
The discussion about security in cyberspace must also take place at European level Since December 3, 2021, the EU has adopted a common line on cybersecurity in Europe. This news is by no means unexpected, but continues a development that began with
Deep Tech is not yet a priority in the European Union – does Emmanuel Macron herald the turnaround? Receiving forward-looking news from Brussels is not necessarily part of the European Union’s standard. With the French presidency, which begins on January 1st and
The UK and France have had a fractured relationship for some time, and the migrant crisis has exacerbated the problem. More people than ever are fleeing the conflict and poverty of the Middle East (including Afghanistan, Sudan, and Iraq). It’s a journey
The former Spanish king Juan Carlos is seeking immunity through court after harassment claims on former lover Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. Juan Carlos is said to have used Spain’s spy agency to threaten and intimidate the Danish businesswoman and her children. The skeleton
Speaking in Greece Pope Francis said “In Europe, there are those who persist in treating the problem as a matter that does not concern them – this is tragic,” With 27 people dying last month alone when crossing between France and the
We hear lots of supposedly amazing ideas coming out of Brussels, but we must really consider whether things are being presented in the correct way. For example, the EU’s Global Gateway initiative is supposed to result in $340bn of investment in infrastructure
On the 5th December in Brussels, demonstrations in Brussels turned violent, as protestors began firing at police officers with cobblestones and fireworks. The police had to retaliate, firing teargas and using water cannons in an attempt to disperse the crowd of protestors.
The new German Government is a coalition of three Parties SPD, Greens and FDP have agreed on the first “traffic light” coalition at the federal level. This Government will take Germany further ahead in the post-Angela Merkel era. Having as their motto
Within one week, the first female prime minister of Sweden was voted in, she then resigned seven hours later, and was then voted back in a second time. Sweden needed a new prime minister after Stefan Lofven retired – he has been
What is the Nothern Ireland Protocol? The current handling of post Brexit trade deals within Northern Ireland, by the United Kingdom, is causing concerns for many EU countries. The UK intends to suspend parts of the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, known
Across Poland, protests are taking place due to the unfortunate and unjustified death of a pregnant 30-year-old woman Pszczyna, in southern Poland, from septic shock. Many activists consider the ban responsible for the woman’s death. The 30-year-old pregnant woman was in
The European Commission has raised this year’s growth forecast for the 19 countries, saying that the economy rebounded from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers returned to stores and employees went back to work in customer-facing roles. The commission
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) continues to provide a need for discussion No three letters in history of the EU have been as controversial as the ESM. Since it was founded in 2010, the European Stability Mechanism has also gone down
The development of electricity prices in Germany only knows the way up Germany is usually one of those countries that have no problem being among the international front runners. According to a recent survey, no country in the world has to
Oil and gas companies should be treated like the tobacco industry and denied routine meetings with EU officials, a group of NGOs have said, as they revealed that fossil fuel producers have enjoyed hundreds of meetings with Brussels decision makers since the Paris
The two-day Summit starting Thursday has as one of its prominent focuses the increasing prices in the European energy bill. The soaring prices across Europe after the almost two years of lockdown has mainly impacted low-income households struggling to deal with the
Last week, the Latvian government took the hard decision of going back into lockdown after opening entirely in the summer. The two opposing sides for and against the vaccines are coming to the contrast observed in most countries in Central and Eastern
A golden statue portraying the late soprano Maria Callas was erected under the Acropolis and close to the Roman theatre of Herodes Atticus. There Maria Callas, at the height of her career, performed for the Greek audience in 1957. It was her
What remains of the debt brake after the corona crisis? The debt brake adopted in 2009 for the state finances of the Federal Republic of Germany meant the end of a policy that today wanted to solve problems at the expense of
The 2021 federal elections in Germany raised numerous questions On the evening of September 26th, many of the parties must have felt like winners. The empty phrases like thanks to the trust of the voters as well as the self-evident assumption of
A lack of investment in digitalization hinders innovation Resting on your laurels is a trait that is almost instantly penalized in business. In the German economy, some industries have long been considered a source of innovation that contributed to new standards. Germany
Building wealth is becoming increasingly difficult in Germany Associating poverty with people who live in Germany is not necessarily easy. Numerous groups in Germany such as low wage earners, single parents and senior citizens are at an increased risk of impoverishment. As
Calls are growing to abolish Italian neofascist movements after violent protests against Covid-19 vaccine passes in Rome, during which demonstrators tried to force their way into the official residence of the Italian prime minister. Twelve people, including Roberto Fiore, the founder of
Emmanuel Macron has said French military forces have killed the leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi. “It’s another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel,” the French president said on Wednesday night, without disclosing the location
A historic impeachment trial gets underway in Denmark on Thursday against a former minister who spearheaded dozens of tough immigration measures. Inger Stoejberg is accused of unlawfully ordering the separation of young asylum-seeking couples in 2016. She is facing a landmark lawsuit,
A series of murders in Marseille has sparked a political row over the growing turf wars between drug gangs who are terrorising poor housing estates, where one recent shooting victim was only 14 years old. Dominique Laurens, the public prosecutor in Marseille, warned
Sweden’s only remaining mountaintop glacier, which until 2019 was also its highest peak, lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change, Stockholm University says. In 2019, the south peak of the
Not until the automatic doors of Eurostar arrivals opened could Sue Stevens be sure that her daughter, Laura, had made it back from Paris. Eighteen bitterly hard months had passed since they had seen each other, while a late moment of bureaucratic confusion at
Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has left Japan on a Vienna-bound plane after she refused to fly home earlier this week. The 24-year-old, who had sought refuge at the Polish embassy in Tokyo, had been expected to take a flight direct to Warsaw but switched
A Belgian judge has opened an investigation for possible manslaughter over floods there that claimed 38 lives, the prosecutors office in the city of Liege announced. The investigating magistrate has the task of identifying who might be responsible for “involuntary homicide by
It earned the nickname “Titanic of the mountains”, but now the monumental and ill-fated train station at Canfranc is to get a new life as a five-star hotel, 51 years after the international rail link across the Pyrenees closed. The story of
The grief-snapped mother is still there, cradling her dead child 84 years on, as is the fallen soldier with his stigmata and the horse with its silent screams. However, the Guernica now on its way to a museum in the Basque country
Pope Francis is alert, breathing without assistance and in a good overall condition after surgery to remove part of his colon, the Vatican has said. The 84-year-old is expected to stay in hospital for seven days barring any complications, following his three-hour operation on
Ryanair’s passenger numbers surged in June, with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination programmes across Europe boosting confidence in air travel. The no-frills airline, which in June reported the biggest annual loss in its 35-year history, carried 5.3 million passengers on 38,000 flights
If the residents of Apes’ Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons snapping them, cooing over them or, indeed, edging gingerly away from them, they give little indication of it. It is not much of a stretch to suggest
Venice has missed tourists – but not their bad habits. In an echo of the pre-pandemic era, authorities have been cracking down on uncouth behaviour as visitors flock back to the lagoon city. A French tourist was fined €150 (£128) after paddling
Italy’s public broadcaster Rai has come under fire for broadcasting leaked CCTV footage of a fatal cable car crash that killed 14 people near Stresa, in the north of Italy. Last month, the cable car connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain
Russian officials have reacted angrily after the head of Ukraine’s football association unveiled a new national team shirt emblazoned with a map of Ukraine that includes Crimea. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and has sought to integrate the peninsula into Russia permanently, but it is internationally
Two cars have been swallowed by a sinkhole on a street in Rome, one of many to blight the Italian capital in recent years. A Mercedes SUV and a Smart car fell into the six-metre-deep and 20-metre-long chasm on Via Zenodossio in
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial for the alleged illegal campaign financing of the massive, showman-style political rallies he staged during his failed re-election bid in 2012. Sarkozy, president for one term from 2007 to 2012, was not present for
Hundreds of thousands of European citizens could find themselves in limbo after 30 June and left without documented legal rights to remain in the UK if the Home Office does not clear a backlog of more than 320,000 applications for post-Brexit residency status, campaigners
