The South Caucasus is expecting with important developments in terms of regional peace and stability. It is not possible for such an environment of peace and stability to exist without Georgia. We talked with Shota Apkhaidze, Georgian political scientist and expert at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, about Georgia’s new EU candidate membership status, its ...
By Fikret Akfırat In the end, the cat is out of the bag. Biden said, “Netanyahu must go.” Biden made this statement during a fundraising event hosted by Lee Rosenberg, the former chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in Washington. He stated, “Netanyahu is a good friend, but I think we need a change.” AIPAC is an ...
There have been comments that there is a “crack” between the US and Israel regarding the ground operation organized by the Israeli army in Gaza. The US’s efforts to postpone the ground operation and its warnings about the intensity of the military operations and not to spread to other regions were put forward as facts supporting the “crack” thesis. US ...
The Italian government has announced to end its participation in the Chinese Belt and Road Project. Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni stated that the agreement had “not produced the expected results”, reiterating that despite leaving the initiative, Italy still could improve its economic relations with China. Italy had joined the Belt and Road in 2019, being the first and so ...
Having been debated already for a long time, the reform of the United Nations and specifically its Security Council has gotten on the agenda within the Gaza Conflict, as the United States used its veto power and – at least politically – paralyzed the institution. We had the chance to interview Hans von Sponeck. Von Sponeck worked for 30 years ...
By Jacques Cheminade, president of the French political party Solidarité et Progrès We have reached the most dangerous moment for mankind ever. The conditions of mutual destruction, provocative actions and hateful rhetoric, that prevailed in some regions of the world before, are spreading now everywhere. Inevitability? The present rules-based order Fyudor Lukyanov, Director of the Valdai Discussion Club and chairman ...
The Schiller Institute has organized on July 8 and 9 an international conference titled “On the Verge of a New World War – European Nations Must Cooperate” in Strasbourg, France. Several politicians and scholars from a wide range of countries participated, and UWI will present a number of selected speeches from the conference. Today we present the speech held by ...
Spain has discreetly expelled at least two U.S. Embassy staff accused of bribing Spanish intelligence officers for secrets, El Pais newspaper reported on Thursday, citing government sources, as Reuters quotes. El Pais called the recruiting of secret agents from a host nation to betray their own country “an openly hostile act done with enemy governments, but never with friends or ...
The leading world powers convened between November 1884 and February 1885 in the city of Berlin, invited by France and Great Britain and organized by the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, to organize the division of Africa. A few years later, in May 1916, through the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Great Britain and France did the same in Western Asia and ...
By Irene Léon * Guayana Esequibo refers to a territory and sea that England coveted since the 19th century. The United States later placed it at the axis of the Monroe Doctrine and is now deploying a joint attack with its corporations, seeking to legitimize a situation of ‘ accommodated events ‘ that has been intensified since 2015. An air ...