Jacobytes, Author at Brussels Express

Joseph WU Jaushieh, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister

Letter from Taipei

28 October 2019 Jacobytes

Last Saturday Taipei hosted the first Gay Pride parade to be held in the city since same sex marriage was

Belgium Diplomatic Bag News Opinion Syria Turkey

Special Envoy needed to unblock the Turkey-Syria Conflict 

21 October 2019 Jacobytes

Speaking after last week’s summit in Brussels European Union Council President Donald Tusk called on Turkey to to put a

China Diplomatic Bag Opinion

Taiwan’s Double Tenth

14 October 201915 October 2019 Jacobytes

10th October is the national day of the Republic of China (ROC) or Taiwan, and it commemorates the start of

Diplomatic Bag Europe Georgia

Will the EU’s new foreign policy chief have Georgia on his mind?

17 September 201917 September 2019 Jacobytes

Josep Borrell, Brussels’new incoming Vice President of the European Commission and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security

Diplomatic Bag Europe Human Rights NGO Opinion

Will the Open Dialogue Foundation pull the wool over the eyes of the European Parliament?

5 August 2019 Jacobytes

Contract murder, theft, sexual scandal, and embezzlement on a grand scale. Add to the equation a dash of political corruption,

Diplomatic Bag Europe Opinion

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) discusses Russia’s wish to have its representatives re-admitted

29 June 2019 Jacobytes

This week’s meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France, has drawn highly critical

Diplomatic Bag Elections Kazakhstan

Interview with Stephen Bland on the Open Dialogue Foundation

11 June 201912 June 2019 Jacobytes

The preliminary results of the Presidential election in Kazakhstan based upon exit polls from Sunday’s voting indicate that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

China Diplomatic Bag Xinjiang

China and the Rise of Totalitarian Control of Minorities

11 June 2019 Jacobytes

As a young boy growing up in 1960s Britain, George Orwell was one of my favourite authors and I avidly

Diplomatic Bag Energy Europe Ukraine

Energy needed to keep Ukraine on a Euro-Atlantic track

5 June 2019 Jacobytes

Ukraine’s leader is now the overwhelmingly popular comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was in Brussels yesterday for his first official visit.

Catalonia Diplomatic Bag Elections European Parliament

Carles Puigdemont announces candidacy in European Parliament Elections

10 April 201910 April 2019 Jacobytes

Still living in exile in Belgium, Carles Puigdemont, the independent Catalan politician chose the Brussels Press Club as the venue