Popular demonstrations and nationwide sit-ins in Lebanon gained rejuvenated momentum today as Prime Minister Saad al Hariri handed his cabinet’s resignation to President Michel Aoun shortly after 3 pm GMT. Hariri earlier in the day announced his intention to the...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has presided over her country’s politics for almost fifteen years after winning the 2005 election. Her chancellorship has been dominated by the 2008 financial crisis, the eurozone crisis, Trump’s tariffs and Brexit. Often hailed as the...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president who has been ruling Egypt since mid-2014, has staged the most brutal crackdown on his country’s Islamist forces in modern history. The army chief-turned president was born to an observant middle-class family. However, the type...
Joseph Mifsud is a Maltese professor at the Link Campus University in Rome and the London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP), and represents the starting point of the “Russiagate” investigations. The last sighting of Joseph Mifsud dates back to...
Decades ago Francis Fukuyama wrote his now (in)famous The End of History arguing that with the fall of Soviet Union, the world has become unipolar and the western liberal order has triumphed all else. Fast forward a few years and...
The British democracy is facing its biggest national crisis for decades. In 2016, the European Referendum has bitterly split the country into two parts. As a result, the United Kingdom is still paralyzed and unable to free itself from this...
Despite Boris Johnson’s determination to deliver Brexit on October 31st after having struck a deal with Brussels that is suitable to most Tories, parliamentary arithmetic has made it impossible for the Prime Minister to fulfil a pledge that lifted him...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to bring the centrist Blue and White party into a joint government with his own Likud party has come to nothing. His rival, Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party, has now been given the chance...
Ever since he joined politics, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been dogged by scandals and controversies that never seem to go away. Known to his supporters as “Bibi”, in July this year he became Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister surpassing,...
A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival party leader Benny Gantz ended Sunday without a conclusive plan to form the nation’s next government. The 10-year incumbent was handed the mandate following Israel’s second election this year, but...