Image by Guillaume70 If you visit Croatia, you will notice the EU is very involved in the country. Signs for projects funded by EU wealth are frequently seen on the highways. Wind farms are everywhere, undoubtably subsidized by Brussels. So it is no surprise that Croatia is serious about joining…
Pro-Russian President Igor Dodon took heat this week for welcoming with open arms a North Korean delegation. An official delegation of the North Korean Worker’s Party came on Saturday to participate in the 20th anniversary festivities of the Moldovan Socialist Party, reports Balkan Insight. “[North] Korea has an enormous potential…
Image by Tadeusz Rudzki Replying to pressure from the European Union to accept hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and ‘refugees,’ the head of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said that Poland had a moral right to say no. “We have not exploited the countries…
Image by Cimmerian praetor With the European Union breathing down their neck to accept more migrants, who have destroyed security in other European countries, the Czech Republic has begun the process to enshrine the right to bear arms in their constitution. The lower house of the Czech Parliament passed the…
Image by AwOiSoAk KaOsIoWa A wildfire broke out near the entombed Chernobyl reactor Thursday, endangered a nuclear waste storage site in the exclusion zone, and spiked radiation levels to 2.5 times the average level. “According to a radiation survey data, radiation levels measured in the wildfire area at 19:00 on…
Geneva International Discussions The 40th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) was held on June 20-21 in Geneva. The GID is a multilateral mediation forum co-chaired by the EU, OSCE and UN. The GID format was designed after the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 to address security and humanitarian…
Image by kremlin.ru The European Union extended sanctions against the Russian Federation until January of next year due to continued Russian support of separatists in East Ukraine and a refusal to follow the Minsk agreements negotiated to end the conflict. The 28 EU heads of state and government made the…
Image by kremlin.ru Moldova has seen a tug-of-war between a pro-EU government and efforts by Russian security services to bring the country back into Moscow’s fold. A multibillion dollar heist of Moldovan assets from its treasury has brought the conflict out into the open. Currently President Dodon wants closer ties…