The EU has been on a collision course with Iran despite European leaders’ former promises that they would not to adhere to the terms of Trump’s sanctions package. Most damningly, Europe agreed to implement sanctions against two Iranian diplomats and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence “for their assassination plots on European soil”. In November, Danish authorities announced that a Norwegian ...
Yellow Vests: the Revolution continues Protests in France continued this week. Other countries, including Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have also joined the revolution. At the same time the demand for yellow vests, the symbol of protests, has begun to grow in other countries. According to a Harris Interactive poll, more than 72% of France supports the movement which started ...
Europe Preparing for Brexit On November 25th, a summit on Brexit was held by EU leaders. The attendees approved British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan which had been previously agreed upon by the European Commission and the UK government. However, the adoption of this document caused uproar within the UK and cost May two ministers who resigned in protest. ...
The subject of the Ukrainian provocation in the Kerch Strait continues to be at the center of the international agenda. Experts from all over the world agree that tensions are intensifying, however, there are different points of view concerning what pushed Ukraine to conduct such a provocation in the first place. Many analysts call the action a political move from ...
In 2016, the US president Donald J. Trump announced that he wanted to Make America Great Again (MAGA), but he encountered a variety of reactions. The phrase was first introduced during Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign and was used again by Bill Clinton in 1992. However, “MAGA” was first used as an official slogan for an election campaign by president ...
Atatürk Memorial Day The 10th November was an important date, marking 80 years since the death of the founder of the Republic Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Across Turkey and beyond her boundaries, memorial ceremonies were been held. In Turkey sirens were sounded and citizens stood in a moment of silence. In Ankara the ceremonies in memory of Atatürk took place ...