Europe

Hopefully, peace will prevail. The Belarusian presidential campaign seemed to have potential for positive changes. I did not get too excited and expect the dictator to let his contender score…

The whole point of the referendum to leave the EU was for the Westminster Parliament to gain back control of law making so that the British government not Brussels could…

Tragically the term “conservative” has a derogatory meaning in Macedonian society. In today’s Macedonian society, people who are ideologically conservative are often described as dumb, uneducated, backward looking, blindly religious,…

Overall, the Italian government has responded positively to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of social and healthcare commitments, as demonstrated by the latest data on our country’s death toll. There…

I cannot help thinking that the “second wave” of this virus is a bit like the Victorian legend of “Spring Heeled Jack”: a useful fiction intended to keep the children…

This past weekend, hundreds of illegal immigrants made the treacherous crossing from France to the United Kingdom, across the Channel. But how has this come to pass? We are an…

Western military intervention in the Middle East, however well-intentioned its perpetrators may have been – or wished to be – has often caused more problems than it has solved. The…

In the first half of this year, the number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders fell by nearly a one-fifth from a year ago, to 36,400, mainly because…

Lithuania has thankfully avoided the worst of the Covid-19 crisis, in fact compared to many European nations it has, so far, been almost unscathed. At the time of writing, Lithuania…

During the migration crisis of 2015, Sweden welcomed 163,000 asylum-seekers, of which a majority was believed to be from civil war-struck Syria, yet not even a third claimed to come…