Congratulations to Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s former Defence Minister and the European People’s Party’s (EPP) nominee for President of the European Commission (EC). She is now the first female in the institution’s history to become its...
Sudan’s political rivals have blown fresh air into hopes for the presence of a political settlement for their country’s crisis by signing an agreement on the political section of the settlement. After hours of negotiations, the ruling Military Council, which...
“Tell them they won’t fool us with football. We will attain our liberty no matter what,” chanted demonstrators in Algiers on Friday, July 12, marking the 21st week of the ongoing weekly protests of Algeria. The day before, the Algerian...
In a not-so-surprising move for many, US President Donald Trump is being criticised after yet another Twitter tirade. The target this time? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, four Congresswomen of colour, who were told to, among...
A showdown is brewing in Kyrgyzstan, one of Central Asia’s most politically unpredictable states. With almost indecent haste in June, parliament authorized a series of investigations into the affairs of former president Almazbek Atambayev. He is implicated in an array...
The nominations for the presidencies of the EU institutions represented a significant setback for French President Emmanuel Macron, but they could be as equally humiliating for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) candidate for the President of...
Turkey has proceeded with its acquisition of Russian S-400 missiles, despite protests from the United States. Ankara’s decision to source anti-air missiles from Russia raised eyebrows in Washington when the deal was initially announced. Now that deliveries of the $2.5...
(Vinnytsia) Ukraine elected Volodymyr Zelensky president this April in a landslide with over 73 percent of the vote. He is now trying to use that political capital to end the conflict in Ukraine’s east and tighten ties with Europe and...
While announcing the nominations for top jobs in the EU government, president of the European Council Donald Tusk lead with the unanimity of the vote, and the fact they chose two women and two men. ‘A perfect balance,’ he said....
With the first round of Democratic debates over, it has become clear that the party has begun to slide to the left. Whether that’s been by design or by force is up for debate. There is even talk that, for...