The EU ‘Green Deal’ was due to cost €620 billion. It was all agreed. However, as Eurointelligence reports, the deal now is almost wholly unfunded — because of ‘lavish’ Ukraine aid. The Commission has a ‘mere’ €82.5 billion allocated. Peanuts! So the Green Agenda is set to fade from political view. Last week, President Macron…
Indian politicians and commentators have rallied in defense of anti-migrant sentiment in Europe to forge alliances and undercut criticism of Hindu nationalism that targets minorities, foremost Muslims. In response to criticism, most recently by the European Parliament, of India’s handling of violent ethnic clashes in the northeastern city of Manipur in which some 130 people…
Last week I published my thoughts on what was happening in France from a great power rivalry perspective. The infighting between factions and who represents whom is now just as chaotic and temporary as the situation on the ground in places where there is obvious conflict, like Ukraine. The protests in France are the culmination…
The CELAC states signaled that the EU’s hostility towards Russia wouldn’t affect their bilateral ties by dint of preparing for their first summit in eight years despite that bloc waging a proxy war against the same country with whom some of its own members are strategic partners. Brussels should have appreciated this impressive display of…
Those excluded little Palestinians, like Zelensky’s hapless prisoners, are not stakeholders in their sick societies and nor are any champions they currently have. If there is a bright side to Israel’s current campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank’s cage city of Jenin, it is that we can no longer deny this ongoing Nakba…
Even if Europe must perish, we should at least spare ourselves from being further tormented by Bloodlands’ blood suckers, Declan Hayes writes. This article extrapolates from a number of key factors to assess Europe’s future when peace in our time eventually returns to Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, that vast area sitting between Poland and Russia, which…
