By Ali Rıza Taşdelen The drums of war are beating louder in Europe. Countries are trying to strengthen their armies. However, far from achieving their targets of increasing the number of soldiers, many countries are facing resignations. Young people are reluctant to join the military. Calls from NATO leaders for a Crusade-like mobilization against Russia are falling on deaf ears. ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen For almost a month, European farmers have been taking to the streets with their tractors, agricultural vehicles and machinery. Started in Germany and then spread to France and other EU countries. French farmers occupied highways with their tractors, blocking transportation for ten days, especially at the entrances to major cities such as Paris and Lyon. They ...
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. We start our series with the opening ...
The approach that the Ukraine conflict has been instigated by the US to detach Europe from Russia and, thus Asia, is gaining wider acceptance day by day. The US, by stirring turmoil in Ukraine, a convergence point of Europe and Asia, aimed in the short term to hinder Eurasian integration and in the long-term China’s extension to Europe through Eurasia. ...
by Yiğit Saner, reporting from Rome / Italy The energy crisis in Europe, a consequence of the geopolitical developments of recent years, together with the increase in the prices of fossil fuels and the expectation of filling the energy deficit with sustainable energy, force the Old Continent on the one hand to find new markets and, on the other, to ...
Inflation in Germany in October exceeded expectations and hit a new record of 10.4 percent, driven by high increases in energy and food. More than 200,000 workers took part in warning strikes and protests at factories in the metal and electricity industries last week. Germany’s largest labor union in the automotive and electrical sectors, IG Metall, responded to employers’ resistance ...
The conflict in Ukraine continues to affect Europe. Sanctions applied against Russia are continuously increasing inflation. European lives were seriously and negatively affected by the fact that gas supplies from Nord Stream 1 were down to 20% of capacity. European governments meanwhile continue to deliver material aid to Ukraine, beginning with arms, as they did since the eruption of the ...
For Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, the mission is clear: “Ukraine must win this war. And Putin’s aggression must be a strategic failure”, she said in her speech on the World Economic Forum on May 27. Von der Leyen declares to “stand with” Ukraine – and announces a whole package of aggressive imperialist measures against Russia ...
By Caner Karavit * It has been quite some time since we started to read news about the reflections of the Russo-Ukrainian War on art. Russian artists are becoming subject to mass deportation in America and Europe, their concerts are being cancelled, and they are forced to resign from their duties. Russian films are censored off from film festivals, while ...
by Yiğit Saner 2021 saw a large increase in immigration waves to Europe due to political / military developments and the aftermath of the pandemic. For months now we have been witnessing the tragic migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland. And from November to today, the situation has not seen much progress and the lives of thousands ...