29.06.2025 Porto, Portugal. Today the 32nd Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has started under the theme “Commemorating 50 Years of the Helsinki Final Act: Responding to a New Reality in the OSCE.” Ms. Pia Kauma, president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, addressed the audience with a reminder of the Helsinki Act, as the…
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EU highjacked by Cold War remnants
Brussels 20.03.2025 The former Soviet Union nations overwhelmed the EU foreign policy, continuing to propagate the Cold War narrative, in spite of the collapse of the Soviet Union 34 years ago on December 25, 1991. In absence of the competition of the ideologies, they insist on interpreting of Russia countering NATO enlargement, as an “unprovoked…
EU: MEPs and 300+ NGOs defend wolf
Brussels 25.09.2024 Anna van Densky This week hearing on wolf protection united Members of the European parliament and more than 300 Civil Society organisations who urge European Commission to drop the proposal to degrade the status of this majestic animal, and keep it as “strictly protected”. The event was chaired by MEP Anja Hazekamp from…
China: H.E.Lu Shaye on ex-Soviet Republics status
Brussels 23.04.2023 In an interview Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that former Soviet countries “have no effective status in international law”. L'ambassadeur de Chine en France Lu Shaye, a estimé que les pays de l’ex-URSS n’ont pas de souveraineté dans le droit international Le ministère français des Affaires étrangères a indiqué avoir «pris…
Poland: $1.3 trillion WWII reparations request
Brussels 04.10.2022 Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has signed a diplomatic note to Germany concerning reparations for World War II, framing the demand for compensation before a visit by Berlin’s top diplomat. Poland demands nearly $1.3 trillion in WWII damages from Germany https://t.co/iG8cFUNFmZ — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 4, 2022 The controversial gesture occurred…
Borrell: Gorbachev era “vanished”
Brussels 31.08.2022 “Mikhail Gorbachev brought with Glasnost and Perestroika a wind of freedom to the Soviet block. He helped end the Cold War and fundamentally change global security, ushering in an era of mutually beneficial cooperation. An era that vanished and is urgently needed again” wrote the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, reacting upon news…
European Parliament December agenda
Brussels 11.12.2021 The European Parliament will award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, discuss the pandemic situation and gender equality in the EU in December plenary in Strasbourg. On Wednesday, December 15, the Parliament will award the 2021 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the imprisoned Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei…
Putin: Russia ready to cooperate with NATO
President Vladimir Putin criticized NATO’s steady expansion, something he suggested was pointless given the absence of a threat from Moscow following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, and Communism as the major foe of the Alliance. Addressing a meeting of Russian military leaders in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin said NATO expansion posed a threat…
MEPs defend Lithuanian judges
Russia should stop prosecuting Lithuanian judges and EU countries should refuse any legal assistance, says European Parliament. Lithuanian judges are judges of the EU & must be protected from unlawful external influences while performing their constitutional duties. This is a basic principle of our Union and Lithuania will find the @EPPGroup & all its European…
Berlin Wall fragments sales at BRAFA
The 65th edition of BRAFA art fair, which will take place from 26 January until 2 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium, will be celebrated in a highly original manner with the exclusive exhibition and sale of five segments of the Berlin Wall. In den Nachrichten: #Berlinermauer an der #BRAFA Art Fair vom 26. Jan –…
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