The assassination of Vidadi Isgandarli, a well-known Azerbaijani political activist who had been in exile in France for some time, is shrouded in mystery. The 62-year-old man was beaten and stabbed at least 21 times last Sunday in his apartment: he died on Tuesday 1st October in hospital. Isgandarli was known for challenging the dictatorial regime of Azerbaijani President Ilham ...
European lawyers cannot provide legal advice to Russian companies and entities, especially those targeted by European sanctions imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine. This was confirmed by the Court of Justice of the European Union which, responding to an appeal by lawyers’ associations, reiterated the ban on providing legal consultancy services to the Moscow government and to all ...
The Labor-led United Kingdom is trying to improve relations with the European Union, after the choice of previous Conservative governments to proceed with a ‘hard Brexit’, and to cut almost all ties with the bloc of which the nation once was part of it. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came on a mission to Brussels where he met the President ...
Sweden is intent on banning all forms of begging, with the government thinking it will get rid of beggars outside the nation’s shops, and has been accused of wanting to “outlaw poverty”. The centre-right coalition, supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats, announced a nine-month investigation into the implementation of a nationwide ban on begging, saying that if deemed feasible, such ...
Spain’s Vox party has become the latest far-right group to get a loan from a Hungarian bank to finance its political campaigns. Two journalistic investigations by the website “VSquare” and the newspaper El Pais have confirmed that the party led by Santiago Abascal received a loan from Magyar Bankholding (Mhb), an institution whose main shareholders include Lorinc Mészáros, a friend ...
Another case of espionage at the hands of Beijing shakes Germany. A Chinese woman, identified only as Yaqi the German defense industry. German prosecutors, who issued the arrest warrant, announced that the 38-year-old worked for a company that provided logistics services to the airport. “In the period between August 2023 and February 2024, the woman repeatedly transmitted information on flights, ...
“It’s hard not to draw a line between the U.S. government crossing the Rubicon and the current cold climate for free expression.” Washington as Julius Caesar. Just as the Roman general crossed the river, forever changing the history of what would later become an empire, so the United States has crossed that symbolic border which would establish its desire to ...
Mark Rutte has officially taken the reins of NATO. The handover with the outgoing Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, took place today (1 October) at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, during a meeting of the Atlantic Council, the political body that brings together the ambassadors of the member countries. The 65-year-old Stoltenberg opened the meeting and the 57-year-old ...
A scandal in Germany has hit the country’s far right. The deputy of the party of Alternatives for Germany he exploited Belarusian political prisoners to work on his farm. The business, opened four years ago, is located in the Belarusian district of Lida, a few steps from Minsk’s border with Lithuania and Poland. The affair Combining political activity with that ...
The trial opened today (30 September) in Paris in which Marine Le Pen and 24 other members of the National Rassemblement are accused, all accused of having set up a system to pay politicians and employees of the transalpine right-wing party through the illegal use of European Union funds. A process that could put Le Pen’s bid for the presidency ...