What Poland’s Presidential runoff means for women’s rights
Last Sunday, Poles voted in the first round of presidential elections. Leading were Rafał Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw and candidate of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform, and Karol Nawrocki ...
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The fossil fuel PR machine Europe doesn’t want to talk about
They say money talks. But sometimes, it whispers, behind closed doors, in Brussels boardrooms, and inside sleek offices of public affairs firms you’ve probably never heard of. While the world tries to...
20 Touko 202510min
UK and EU hit reset: what did the summit deliver?
Today all eyes are on a very complicated relationship that ended with a breakup, the EU and the UK. Keir Starmer wants to reset this relationship and this week, that effort finally takes shape in the ...
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A Grain of Power : The void - Cairo, Egypt 4/6
With the fourth episode of A Grain of Power, the reportage trip which started in Ukraine and passed along the Western coast of the Black Sea reaches its final destination. In the Egyptian town of Mans...
18 Touko 202525min
Europe’s Super Sunday: What’s at stake in three key elections?
May 19th is Europe’s Super Sunday with three elections: Romania, Poland and Portugal, that could reshape each country’s national trajectory and reverberate across the continent. Romania’s presidential...
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Orbán’s government to blacklist critical media and NGOs with new bill
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, never one to shy away from a bit of authoritarian flair, is back at it. His ruling Fidesz party has just introduced a bill that will be blacklisting and monitori...
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Pfizergate: EU court slams Von der Leyen over secret vaccine texts
A European Union court has just ruled that the European Commission was wrong, actually, very wrong, to deny access to text messages exchanged between its President, Ursula von der Leyen, and Pfizer C...
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Putin on a tightrope as Zelenskyy waits in Istanbul for ‘serious negotiations’
Busy week this one for the world of diplomacy where moves and decisions made could determine the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly accepted Vladimir Putin’s suggestion to have serious n...
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