Month: September 2022

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss will hold a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly, her office said Saturday. The pair had previously been scheduled to meet in Downing Street on Sunday. No reason was given for the postponement of what will be the leaders’ first meeting since […]

BELGRADE — Gloomy weather and pouring rain — coupled with weeks of institutional hurdles and nationalist threats — did not stop the EuroPride parade from filling central Belgrade with rainbow-colored umbrellas and bright raincoats on Saturday evening. “This is the most important EuroPride that’s been held in 30 years. The banning and un-banning of the Pride, […]

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been reconnected to the national electricity grid after engineers repaired one of the four main external power lines damaged during the Russian invasion of the country, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday. The nuclear facility’s “power status has improved over the past week,” but the […]

Stefan Auer is associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and author of “European Disunion.” He tweets at @stefanauer_hku. If any reminder were needed that the European project is under stress, watching recent developments in the European Union’s current capital, Prague, would be enough.  The Czech EU Council presidency offered a suitable backdrop for […]

Andrew Duff is a former member of the European Parliament. His latest book, “Constitutional Change in the European Union,” was just published by Palgrave Pivot.   The European Union is in a constitutional muddle — and it’s making everything worse.   The Treaty of Lisbon, which forms the constitutional foundation of the EU, requires the […]