So what does the desertification of Africa have to do with us Europeans? Much in every way, believes a former Minister of the Environment for Benin, speaking this weekend at the European Economic Summit in Amsterdam. Luc Gnacadja brings his…
An Irish-German wedding in Munich last week prodded me to check out the role of the Irish in shaping the story of Germany. Leah is from Dublin; Martin from Munich. Their romance began during a Schuman Centre summer school in…
There’s little in the news these days to give us much hope. Who looks forward to hearing more news about The Ukraine, Ebola in Africa, ISIS in Iraq and bombardments in the Gaza strip? Twenty-five years ago, there was much…
The longest human chain in history was formed across the Baltics just twenty five years ago last week as a moral protest against the illegal occupation by the Soviet Union of these lands. It stretched from the north of Estonia…
The parade of Ukrainian hostages by pro-Russian separatists through the streets of Donetsk over the weekend is the kind of ‘humiliating and degrading treatment’ the Geneva Convention was signed 150 years ago last Friday to prevent. The convention – officially…
