Europe

140 Years After Key European Colonial Conference, Ongoing Impacts Require Urgent Action European governments have yet to reckon with and meaningfully address the ongoing impacts of their colonial legacies affecting people of African descent on the African continent and in…

With the UN climate talks in full swing in Baku, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) exposes the EU’s climate hyCOPrisy, using COP29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s gas as more climate friendly so it can justify doubling imports and still claim to…

David Swanson, the Executive Director of World Beyond War and campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org, was awarded the Real Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 in a touching ceremony held on November 10, 2024, in Oslo. I had the pleasure of sitting…

Citizens of the world, partisans of a world without borders… these are the first words of the refrain of Citoyens du Monde, a composition by HK, offered to be the anthem of the Third World March (3MM) for Peace and…

David Swanson accepting the first annual Real Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation. It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in…

It’s finally harvest season here in Israel and Palestine. The olives are ripe for picking, and families prepare to visit their groves to collect their fruits to sell or press into oil, soap or other natural products that date back…

As the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra prepares for his hearing in the European Parliament to reprise his role for the next five years, more than a hundred civil society organisations have written to ask him not to bring fossil…

There is a growing front in the European Parliament that fears an overly militarised Europe. MEP Danilo Della Valle (‘The Left’) has taken the initiative to ask MEPs to set up an intergroup for peace in Brussels to promote a…

According to the human rights activist and German MEP, the European Parliament is now a fragmented institution where more than half of the MEPs do not share the social, environmental and economic initiatives aimed at ending the war. TASS: Interview…

Polling stations across Moldova and abroad have just closed in a pivotal twin election, which could define the country’s future direction. In two crucial votes – the presidential election and a referendum on EU accession – Moldovans were asked to…