Current Affairs

The UK and EU’s new Northern Ireland deal: what is the ‘Windsor Agreement’?

On Monday, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with President of the European Commission Ursela von der Leyen to discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol. These discussions took place in Windsor, close to one of the residences of the King, resulting in deals that have been named the ‘Windsor (...)

Monday 6 March 2023

European Perspectives - Ukraine, 1 year after

“European Perspectives” is a series of articles written by different members of the different language editions of our network. Ukraine Year One - Davide Cinotti, Eurobull It is November 2013. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, convinces neighbor Viktor Yanukovych – Ukrainian Head of State – (...)

Friday 24 February 2023

A new world (dis)order – 1 year-mark of the war in Ukraine

I just hope the Russians love their children too The lamps are going out all over Europe - Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary of Great Britain in 1914 The global stage was shaken exactly one year ago, when the trumpets of war sounded, once again, in the Old Continent, as a result of Russia’s (...)

Friday 24 February 2023

Could the Mahsa Amini Protests Be a Turning Point for Iran?

This article was originally published by The Federalist Debate on November 2022. The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, on September 16th has led to protests all over Iran. Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she was arrested by the moral police for not (...)

Friday 13 January 2023

Italy’s recent elections: an explanation

An analysis of the Italian political elections on Sunday, September 25. From Mario Draghi’s resignation to Giorgia Meloni’s triumph and the political future of the Bel Paese, via a heated campaign and the Rosatellum voting system. On Sunday, September 25, general political elections were held in (...)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

Putin won’t negotiate. Russia’s total defeat in Ukraine will end the war

In response to Russia’s sham referenda in four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, the country’s President, confirmed there would be no peace talks with the current Russian leadership. In March, during his first foreign trip since the Kremlin launched the full-scale war, (...)

Thursday 20 October 2022

World Mental health Day: ’Speak up, don’t let the demons consume you’

While I am a person that generally doesn’t have that many issues opening up about his negative emotions in detail within closed circles and with trusted people, I am not super confident about doing such things in the wide open of a media outlet (I might actually regret, out of pure worry about (...)

Monday 10 October 2022

The death of Elizabeth II: an opening for a republican and federal path for the United Kingdom?

Changes in political systems worldwide have generally been borne out of a mix of times of crisis and an end of certainties. Look at the French Ancien Régime, for example, washed away by the waves of revolution amid a terrible financial and subsistence crisis during which the monarchy’s (...)

Friday 30 September 2022

Words and Actions: Understanding The UK’s Contradictory Stance on Ukraine

The United Kingdom is a country which has historically prided itself on its support of humanitarianism. Thinking globally is the basis of Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit vision of a “Global Britain”. It may seem bewildering then that the UK is the only country in Europe which does not accept Ukrainian (...)

Friday 16 September 2022

Race to 10 Downing Street: How the next Reaganite could further deter relations with the EU

The race to be UK’s next Prime Minister is now down to 2- Liz Truss, the current Foreign Secretary and the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whose resignation led to the start of backlash and the ultimate fall of Boris Johnson as the PM. The final two candidates will be trying to convince Tory (...)

Monday 15 August 2022

The return of history, and Europe’s place in it

This article has been approved by the JEF Belgium winter federal committee as an official position paper of the section. After the fall of the Berlin wall, in Europe and the West as a whole, a certain triumphalism was the norm. A widespread idea emerged that liberal democracy and neoliberalism (...)

Monday 18 July 2022

The UK and Brexit: the picture today

The aftermath of Brexit in 2022 In June 2016, British people decided to leave the European Union after a referendum which saw 51% of the UK population in favour of, and 48% against, Brexit. It took four years to complete the exit from the EU and on 31st December 2020, the agreement was (...)

Tuesday 5 July 2022
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