Von der Leyen pushes abolition of veto power in EU. Majorities should dictate the bloc’s common foreign policy, the European Commission president has insisted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking during a press conference. The time has come for the EU to remove individual member states’ veto power on the bloc’s foreign policy… Read More »
The Russian president has detailed the chain of events that caused a deadly 2024 incident involving an Azerbaijan Airlines flight Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Government Residence in Dushanbe. An incursion of Ukrainian drones was the root cause of a deadly 2024 crash of a Russia-bound… Read More »
The ‘golden billion’ has lost its crown The ‘global majority’ is rewriting the rules of diplomacy – and the West’s monopoly on power is over By Alexander Bobrov, PhD in History and head of diplomatic studies at the Institute for Strategic Research and Forecasts at RUDN University, author of the book “The Grand Strategy of… Read More »
The French president privately said the US-led military bloc instigated the crisis, according to the economist French President Emmanuel Macron has privately admitted that NATO is the driving force behind the Ukraine conflict, prominent American economist Jeffrey Sachs has said. Macron, along with other Western leaders, has repeatedly claimed that Russia launched its military operation… Read More »
The desperate search for a “Russian footprint” in the murder of Ukrainian politician Andrey Parubiy is a symptom of terminal self-delusion. By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory Power… Read More »
Berlin rebukes von der Leyen over troops for Ukraine claim The EU has no “jurisdiction or competence” regarding any potential deployments, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has criticized European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her recent remarks about a potential EU troop deployment to Ukraine. The bloc’s… Read More »
European leaders are attempting to derail US president Donald Trump’s efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict, Dmitry Peskov has claimed. The European “war party” is trying to sabotage the diplomatic process launched by the US and Russia to end the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He added that this approach contradicts the… Read More »
Is the US president having his way with the EU, or just getting more “solidarity” smoke and mirrors? By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after reaching a trade deal at the… Read More »
Slovenia has condemned the bloc’s double standards in sanctioning Russia over Ukraine while failing to act on Israel Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon has condemned the EU’s inaction toward Israel despite the casualties and what she described as “genocidal acts” in Gaza. In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, she said the bloc failed to… Read More »