The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said today that the European Union (EU) neighborhood is “on fire” in the face of crises such as Belarus, which demand a united community response. “In the past ten months, our neighborhood has been engulfed in flames, from Libya to Belarus and everything has gotten much worse than … Read more
The demonstration, which takes place under the slogan “March of Heroes”, is dedicated to the arrested leadership of the opposition, Maryja Kalesnikav, and other leaders of the protest movement, who are either imprisoned or expelled from the country by the authorities with brutal threats. The DPA agency wrote that, according to observers, 150,000 Lukashenko’s opponents … Read more
Hundreds of women took part in another demonstration against the regime of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Saturday. Police cracked down on the protest and detained at least 46 protesters by evening, according to Reuters. The videos showed how masked members of the security forces brutally dragged women into police … Read more
At the meeting of the Visegrad Four (V4), the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia agreed that free elections must be held in Belarus, and that the European Union should subsequently offer Belarus an economic cooperation program. The V4 intends to promote this approach at the upcoming European Union summit, announced … Read more
Britain signed its first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan on Friday. “A historic moment”, it sounded. – The deal will make 99% of exports to Japan tariff-free. The digital technology and data provisions in the agreement between the two countries go far beyond those in the EU’s trade agreement with Japan. Prime Minister Boris Johnson … Read more
Like the previous ones, the eighth round of negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union with a view to an agreement on the future trade relationship ended without any understanding between the parties. This time, however, the positions have become extreme and the possibility of a chaotic divorce is increasingly seen as inevitable. … Read more
If, as is speculated, the intention of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in advancing a pproposal for a law on the British internal market which contradicts the terms set out in the Protocol of Ireland accompanying the “Brexit” agreement, was to pressure the European Union to make concessions in the negotiations of the future trade … Read more
The reason for the rift is the controversial draft of the new law, which was published by Boris Johnson’s cabinet on Wednesday. This is a plan for Britain’s action if an agreement with the European Union is not reached. The problem is that the text of the new law contradicts in many respects earlier commitments … Read more
The European Union on Thursday called on Britain to delete passages violating the legally binding Brexit agreement from the controversial bill. However, the government in London has indicated that it does not intend to change anything in the internal market norm, which, according to EU diplomats, further reduces the chances of successful talks on future … Read more
Regardless of the circumstances in which the fires that the strong winds helped to spread set off, consuming almost entirely the “worst refugee camp” in Europe, the Wednesday morning tragedy in Campo de Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, was an “inevitability” waiting to happen. “Fire is a visceral manifestation of European policies, which … Read more