Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s approach to COVID-19 has been different from the rest of Europe. Similar to the refugee crisis in 2015 when Kurz was primarily responsible for closing the Balkan route, the Chancellor is also taking a bold position...
In November 2019, the New York Times disclosed 400 documents regarding China’s education camps in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, built-in 2017 for the specific purpose of indoctrinating the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group. Although part of the International community...
Like in any great European crisis, the European Union is playing catch up. Even with months to prepare, Europe has been caught out completely off guard by Covid-19, ending up as the epicenter of the worst global pandemic in generations....
For weeks, it had been inevitable. Trailing by almost three hundred delegates and with no conceivable path to the nomination left, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic Race. It marks the end of his quest to lead...
It is difficult to predict what long-term impact the coronavirus will have on global politics, but it is unlikely that this pandemic is going to stem the rise of populism. Ivan Krastev of the New Statesman wrote that it would...
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a determined and united European approach to cushion the coronavirus pandemic’s consequences. “In this crisis, halve measures are insufficient,” she wrote in an essay that appeared on Sunday in a...
The Labour Party has learned its lesson from the previous election. After socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s poor management of the party for the previous four years, the direction is now set to change under Keir Starmer, who is about to say...
For the Trump administration, China has played the role of enemy in several past chapters of foreign affairs and economic negotiation, but the US government is now trying to work together with Chinese officials. The shift comes as US deaths...
Brazil now has 9,056 confirmed Covid-19 cases and the virus has affected famous singers, actors, government ministers and even Brazilian President Jair Bolosonaro’s press secretary Fabio Wajngarten. However, Bolsonaro is refusing to take this crisis seriously. He leads a country...
Nine Russian military planes landed in Italy on March 22 in an aid operation to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. From Russia With Love “From Russia with Love” — as coined by Moscow —the Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes carried medics,...