France-Germany: Divided in Europe, USA united in…Iran
Last Tuesday afternoon the President of ‘America first’ Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Nuclear non-Proliferation Agreement with Iran. The deal is known as P5+1 and was co-signed by the US,...
View ArticleEurope split in confronting the US sanctions on Iran, Washington isolated
Donald Trump, the ‘America First’ President in withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear non-proliferation deal, doesn’t seem to be honoring his lead electoral motto. It seems that he is serving more the...
View Article“We always honor our words, and in that respect we expect our partners to...
Earlier this morning the High Representative/Vice-President Ms Federica Mogherini met with Mr Wang Yi, State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China during the...
View ArticleEuropean Council: Choosing new leaders for the EU betrays efforts for a wider...
The special meeting of the European Council held last Saturday 30 August, despite or probably because of the alarming news about the new fall of inflation to the crisis level of 0.3% last month, was...
View ArticleImmigration crisis at its very worst: EU to outsource rescue business to...
The freshly released statistics on immigration, which were published by Eurostat last Friday, show that 2014 has been a negative record year for the European Union. Last year, 626,000 people applied...
View ArticleCan Obama attract Iran close to the US sphere of influence?
The best indications about the fairness of a deal are that all the parties directly involved in it can claim victory, and when it comes to the detailed terms they feel they didn’t get exactly what they...
View ArticleEU should promote immigration as a humanitarian issue in order to provide a...
Only a few days after the Calais migration incident, a new shipwreck just 10 miles off the coast of Libya caused the death of 25 people while there are still 200 people missing out of the 600 who were...
View ArticleMigration crisis will keep deteriorating as common EU political will is...
The migration crisis in the European Union was the main issue of the Western Balkans Summit yesterday in Vienna, but was largely overshadowed by the deaths of at least 20 refugees who were found dead...
View ArticleErdogan’s electoral win on a ‘me or chaos’ dilemma means trouble for everybody
The dilemma ‘me or chaos’ that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hurled at his compatriots in last Sunday’s election paid dividends. And this despite the fact that he did what he could to...
View ArticleTerrorism and migrants: the two awful nightmares for Europe and Germany in 2016
Less than two weeks have passed since the dawn of 2016 and terrorism and the migration crisis continue afflicting Europe and especially Germany. Yesterday’s horrible terrorist attack in Istanbul that...
View ArticleWEF Davos 2016 LIVE: “We need more Schengen but reinforce control!”, France’s...
Earlier today in Davos, WEF organized one more session on Europe in order to find ways to deal with one of the most important issues that the old continent is facing which is no other than the refugee...
View ArticleAnother doomed EU attempt to interfere in Libya?
Last Monday, the Italian coastguard rescued a round number of 2,000 immigrants and refugees in the central Mediterranean off the Libyan waters. In those fifteen operations the Italian coastguard was...
View ArticleThe US and EU decisively oppose Erdogan’s plans for Turkey and beyond
Last Monday, John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, participated in the EU Foreign ministers’ council in Brussels, where the main topic on the agenda was the attempted coup in Turkey and its aftermath....
View ArticleSolitary Britain sides with US aggressing Russia and chooses hard Brexit
Last Sunday Britain surprised Europe by surpassing even the Americans in condemning and threatening Russia over the fight of Aleppo, imminent to be lost for the West. British Foreign minister Boris...
View ArticleEurope moulds global defense and security chart given US new inward vision
Europe takes very seriously Trump’s rhetoric about limiting US commitment to NATO and Old Continent’s defenses. In view of that, Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security...
View ArticleHow will the EU face the migration crisis when the Turkish threats come true?
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on 24 November calling for the negotiations to be suspended between the EU and the Turkish government until the latter ends its suppressive and dominant...
View ArticleEU and China in search of a win-win agreement through strategic cooperation...
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini together with the 28 EU Foreign Ministers met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last Monday to discuss the agenda of the...
View ArticleEU-Turkey relations: EU considers imposing sanctions while Turkey keeps...
Turkey continues violating the sovereignty rights of Cyprus by conducting a new illegal drilling operation on the northeast of the island. The EU had already urged Turkey last month to stop its gas...
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