28.09.2025 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia next week is being called so he can describe the administration’s reinvention of the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” and outline new standards for military personnel, according to half a dozen people familiar with the planning….
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MEPs outcast Eurosceptic views
12.09.2025 Strasbourg At September Plenary the European Parliament voted on a non-legislative report entitled “Stock-taking of the European Elections 2024 (reference INI 2025/2012). While presented as a reflection on the conduct of the elections, the text amounts to an attempt by the EU’s political establishment to discredit opposition voices and centralise control over Europe’s democratic…
Iran: France-Germany-UK plus EU call to de-escalate
Brussels 18.06.2025 The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, together with the High Representative of the European Union, had a phone conversation with their Iranian counterpart on Monday, 16 June 2025, regarding the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, reads the statement issued by the European External Acton Service. E3…
Iran “enrichment capabilities still exit”
Brussels 18.06.2025 A top IDF official acknowledged for the first time that while Israel has destroyed Natanz’s above-ground nuclear facilities, the military is unsure whether it succeeded in destroying Iran’s uranium-enriching centrifuge fleet at the Natanz underground facility. (Image: illustration). Previously the IDF had said that it had succeeded in striking and destroying both the…
Israel-EU: “toxic antisemitic incitement”
22.05.2025 Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused unnamed European officials of the “toxic antisemitic incitement” he blamed for an increasingly hostile climate in which the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington took place. (Image above: Jewish Museum, Washington DC) Israel has faced a wave of criticism from Europe of late as it…
EU: no molecule of Russian gas!
Strasbourg 06.05.2025 The EU will end its dependency on Russian energy by stopping the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy, while ensuring stable energy supplies and prices across the Union. The REPowerEU Roadmap, presented today by the European Commission, paves the way to ensure the EU’s full energy independence…
Focus: Romanian elections ‘remake’
Brussels 04.05.2025 Today the Romanians voted in the first round of a presidential election that could promote a Conservative Eurosceptic George Simion in a ballot that will impact the European policies in favor of neo-tribalism, away from the “United States of Europe” dream of the Federalists. Me and the boys on our way to the…
EPP: Congress draws directions
Valencia, Spain 29.04.2025 The European People’s party (EPP) Congress takes place in Valencia on 29-30 April. The 2025 EPP Congress is co-hosted by the Spanish party Partido Popular, and will become a defining moment of unity, and a moment of the EPP leadership charting the course for the years ahead, guiding Europe’s future and resolving…
Afghanistan: EU condemns public executions
Brussels 13.04.2025 The European Union condemns the public executions of four men in Nimroz, Badghis and Farah province, in Afghanistan, the EEAS spokesperson statement on the latest executions reads. “The European Union, as a matter of principle, strongly opposes the death penalty at all times and in all circumstances. It is a cruel and inhumane…
MEPs adopt Human Rights report
Strasbourg 02.04.2025 Today the European ²Parliament adopted its 2024 annual report on human rights and democracy in the world, warning against the deteriorating global human rights situation. (Image above: illustration). Denouncing the rise of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and populism, MEPs are deeply concerned by the increase in violations of democratic values and disregard for international humanitarian…
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