There are a number of commonly-used acronyms that suggest things that are worrying and possibly dangerous: AIDS, of course, stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It’s used to describe a number of potentially life-threatening…
Aleksandar Vučić presenting the Belgrade-Nish high-speed railway project © predsednik “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” That was how Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, described the likely reaction of Stalin’s Russia to…
Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom literally translated from Greek) was built in the 6 century in the imperial capital of the Roman empire Constantinople, formerly Byzantium and before the Ottoman empire’s reign (1453–1923), as a patriarchal…
Marcello Mencarini, the Lamborghini Miura SV, 1973 Photo © Marcello Mencarini/Bridgeman Images For the first time, the Cité de l’Automobile will be focusing on Lamborghini in 2020 and bringing together the Italian car manufacturer’s flagship…
Nikola Hendrickx
It cannot be easy to become the European Union’s Commissioner for Health and Food Safety just before Europe is struck by the worst pandemic in recent history. It would be like being appointed captain of…
Benjamin Franklin was right when in 1789 he wrote, in a letter to a friend, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” He wasn’t the originator of the…
Europol sets out its aims in dealing with gangsters and money laundering quite clearly. “To effectively disrupt and deter criminals involved in serious and organised crime, law enforcement authorities need to follow the money trail…
The sanitary, economic and political crisis that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about is one of the worst we have seen in decades. But it is a shared reality, and a calamity that has affected…
The summer holidays are approaching, and suddenly with life almost back to normal people are starting to come under the illusion that the disease and the lockdown were a distant story from a long time…
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In the May 2020 edition of Europe Diplomatic Magazine, we published a profile of the President of Belarus entitled ‘ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO Dictator with a difference’, together with an overview of the political and social situation…
Josep Borrell High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy© Wikicommons On May 9, in a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which launched Europe on the road…
