Four-and-a-half years after the UK voted to leave the EU during its 2016 referendum on EU membership, it was widely speculated that the negotiations for a UK-EU trade deal would conclude at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday December 13: deal or...
The European Union and the United States are seeking to impose new sanctions on Turkey. Ankara has been behaving like an adversary and not an ally of the West and now it will feel the consequences. Why are the EU...
On Thursday, the EU passed the delayed €1.8 trillion Euro budget and coronavirus recovery fund much to the relief of many of the bloc’s leaders. The fund was finally approved after Poland and Hungary removed their vetoes during the recent...
In a devastating blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership, Likud Member of the Knesset (MK) Gideon Sa’ar — long seen as the Prime Minister’s nemesis in the Likud Party — announced he was quitting the party and will...
Nicolás Maduro’s United Socialist Party has reportedly won Venezuela’s legislative election held Dec. 6. With the win, Maduro retains control of the country’s national assembly and solidifies his grip on power. Maduro’s Big Win According to the country’s electoral authority,...
President-elect Joe will reportedly nominate four-star General Lloyd Austin as his Secretary of Defense. It’s a historic nomination and continues a trend Biden has set during the assemblage of his cabinet. Biden’s Promise: a Cabinet ‘That Looks Like America’ President-elect...
It looks as if Romania’s National Liberal Party (PNL) has suffered an unexpected defeat following the country’s recent parliamentary election. The opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) was just short of 30 percent of votes in the nation’s general election on...
The European Council is meeting again from December 10 to 11 and tensions with Turkey will be at the top of the agenda. In particular, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the European policy towards Turkey can...
December has not started off well for French President Emmanuel Macron. During a televised interview with the online portal Brut, he denied that many of his proposed reforms to tackle Islamism are designed to eradicate France’s freedoms, calling such claims...
Al-Jazeera reports that the EU wants to form a new alliance with the US to end the tensions of the Trump era and confront the challenge posed by China. The plan proposes rebuilding ties, with united stances on issues ranging...