Emma Faverio Image Credits: The Independent Matteo Salvini has emerged as the winner of Italian politics since the 2018 general election campaign. A member of the far-right Lega party, Salvini was able to muster enough support to propel his party into a coalition government with the populist Five Star Movement under current Prime Minister Giuseppe…
Category: Europe
Nord Stream II: Russia’s latest ‘Energy Weapon’?
Charlotte Gardner Proposed Nord Stream II route. Source: Gazprom. Nord Stream II, the new export gas pipeline that will travel across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Europe, has become the latest example of Russia’s foreign policy strategies abroad. The pipeline is supposedly a commercial project, aiming to increase the amount of gas exported directly…
Chernobyl 2.0 – A Real Danger or An Irrational Fear?
Dani Podgoretskaya As the Belarussian government finishes construction of the controversial Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant, multiple international experts express their concerns over the project. The Lithuanian energy minister, Zygimantas Vaiciunas, even went as far as calling the project “a threat to our national security, public health, and the environment.” Photo: Ostrovets is to Vinyus as Heathrow…
POLICY EXPERT: “We are in charge of our own crisis”
Guest contributor and first year Politics and Eastern European Studies student at UCL , Stanislaw Krawiecki, shares his thoughts on the current refugee crisis in Europe, in particularly Poland’s role in the crisis… On the one hand- the refugee crisis, one of the defining processes of the contemporary reality in Europe, largely shaping the development of a new…
OPINION: “Brexit is a downward train going nowhere…”
Global Politics editor, Alex Stephenson, shares his thoughts about the implications of Brexit It’s been touted Brexit is a train crash in slow motion. To say so is wrong – Brexit is a series of multi-car pile ups, slowly converging to create one nebulus of political insanity. Many crashes are accidental, and may amount to…
The Truth about Ukraine
Guest Contributor and Ukrainian Native Anna Tarasenko writes this telling and controversial piece on the falsities of the Ukrainian reality from her perspective…. As early as 5 years ago, responses to “I am from Ukraine”, would usually see me hear things like: “That’s part of Russia, right?” Ukraine as a country was unknown, despite gaining its independence some 25…
Political Correctness in the UK: Has It Gone Too Far?
Are we censoring differing viewpoints instead of allowing freedom of speech?
The European Empathy Crisis
Where is the humanity in Europe’s response to the refugee crisis?
We summarise…the EU’s response to refugees
Boat, land, foot. Hundreds and hundreds of bodies and souls desperate to cross the Mediterranean Sea in Europe. What did the EU do?
1 Million Refugees: Can Host Countries Cope?
Does reluctant Parliament have a point? We examine the risks that host countries encounter when accepting asylum seekers
An International Arms Trade Treaty – the gun debate we should be having.
Guns have been big in the news recently. After the horrific shootings in the US state of Connecticut in December, media debate has been heavily focused on American attitudes to guns, and the potential for the country to enact stricter gun control laws. Particularly here in the UK, there is almost a fascination with how…
