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...
Ever since Washington’s war on terror, drones have become increasingly important in modern warfare. Powerful actors are investing in drone technology and using it on the battlefield. Europe, however, has a lot of ground to make up. Turkey’s Growing Drone...
Five-member nations of NATO (France, Germany, Greece, the UK and Italy) have recently agreed to build a next-generation helicopter to replace the existing fleet starting in 2035. The news was announced on November 19 in a statement from the alliance....
Politicians across Europe have started to signal that the end is near for the lockdowns that they imposed to “control the spread of the coronavirus,” with French President Emmanuel Macron announcing a three-stage easing of his own country’s lockdown. Macron’s...
On November 21, Turkey announced through a NAVTEX from Antalya Station, that its research vessel Oruc Reis accompanied by the vessels Ataman and Cengiz Han, would once again conduct seismic research activities in the proximity of the Greek-Turkish maritime borders....
The wind blows softly, it is the beginning of spring. Undisturbed, it enters the main nave of the church and moves over the empty pews, cutting through the silence which echoes mutely all around. Gently, it caresses the flames and...
As a lesson from the coronavirus crisis, the EU Commission is calling for a European pandemic plan for future cases. In addition, the Commission is seeking to expand the competencies of the EU health authorities European Center for Disease Prevention...
In the ongoing dispute between Brussels and Ankara, the European Union has extended its sanctions against a Turkish company by one year. The sanctions were imposed due to Turkey drilling and conducting natural gas exploration in the Mediterranean. EU Sanctions...
It was August 2017 when the soldier Alexander Vladimirovich Rakityansky and his commander “Zhora” agreed to meet us in a public park on the outskirts of Donetsk, in Eastern Ukraine. Rakityansky and “Zhora” – both militiamen of the pro-Russian army...
Just in these weeks, at the courthouse in Milan, the appeal process for the death of the journalist Andy Rocchelli is coming to an end. The proceedings at first instance saw the sentencing to twenty-four years' imprisonment of the Italian-Ukrainian Sergeant Vitaly Markiv, of the Kiev National Guard, whose unit was guarding the top of the hill: it was he, together with his comrades, who allegedly contributed to the murder of the reporter and his Russian colleague, Andrej Mironov.