Month: August 2025

Russia on Friday warned that the reimposition of sanctions against Iran risked “irreparable consequences”, after Britain, France and Germany moved to reintroduce curbs over Tehran’s failure to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal. “We strongly urge them to reconsider and review their erroneous decisions before they lead to irreparable consequences and further tragedy,” Russia’s foreign […]

When François Bayrou convened his ministers at 3:30 pm on Monday, few knew what was coming. By 4 pm, the French prime minister stunned many of his own allies by publicly announcing that he would seek a confidence vote in parliament. Bayrou’s €44 billion austerity package, meant to rein in France’s ballooning deficit, is deeply […]

The Just Transition’s Democratic Gap The European Green Deal (EGD) commits the EU to climate neutrality by 2050. To mitigate the socio-economic impact on regions dependent on coal, steel, cement, chemicals, and fossil fuels, the EU created the Just Transition Fund (JTF). Access to this fund requires the development of Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTPs), […]

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Bogdan Gogulan is the CEO and Managing Partner of NewSpace Capital, a private equity firm working in the space technology sector. He has held business development and strategy positions at AT Communication, American Express, and Deutsche Bank, and managed projects for security and defence agencies. The headlines out of the latest NATO summit sounded reassuring: […]

WARSAW – Poland put air defences on the “highest state of readiness” after the latest round of Russian strikes on Kyiv, which Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said underscored Moscow’s determination to keep fighting. Russia launched a large-scale air attacks on Ukraine overnight from Wednesday into Thursday, firing ballistic missiles and drones at Kyiv and […]

Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health has been called to appear before Parliament amid growing concerns over the lack of medical competence of a senior specialist at the Public Health Agency. The agency’s Director General is also set to testify before a parliamentary committee on 11 September. When Magnus Gisslén, an infectious diseases […]

PARIS – Emmanuel Macron will host German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the Riviera on Thursday evening, hoping support from Berlin can bolster his standing in the EU as the French government edges towards collapse.  Macron will be glad to escape the turmoil of French politics for a couple of days. He will greet Merz at […]

France’s far-right and hard-left parties rejected a compromise with Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his government’s cost-cutting budget on Thursday, saying it was “too late” to make a deal. Bayrou has staked his political survival on a confidence vote he called for September 8, after months of deadlock over the government’s plans to slash the […]