Letter from Taipei
Last Saturday Taipei hosted the first Gay Pride parade to be held in the city since same sex marriage was
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Author: Jacobytes
Special Envoy needed to unblock the Turkey-Syria Conflict
Speaking after last week’s summit in Brussels European Union Council President Donald Tusk called on Turkey to to put a
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Taiwan’s Double Tenth
10th October is the national day of the Republic of China (ROC) or Taiwan, and it commemorates the start of
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Will the EU’s new foreign policy chief have Georgia on his mind?
Josep Borrell, Brussels’new incoming Vice President of the European Commission and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security
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Will the Open Dialogue Foundation pull the wool over the eyes of the European Parliament?
Contract murder, theft, sexual scandal, and embezzlement on a grand scale. Add to the equation a dash of political corruption,
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) discusses Russia’s wish to have its representatives re-admitted
This week’s meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France, has drawn highly critical
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Interview with Stephen Bland on the Open Dialogue Foundation
The preliminary results of the Presidential election in Kazakhstan based upon exit polls from Sunday’s voting indicate that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
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China and the Rise of Totalitarian Control of Minorities
As a young boy growing up in 1960s Britain, George Orwell was one of my favourite authors and I avidly
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Energy needed to keep Ukraine on a Euro-Atlantic track
Ukraine’s leader is now the overwhelmingly popular comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was in Brussels yesterday for his first official visit.
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Carles Puigdemont announces candidacy in European Parliament Elections
Still living in exile in Belgium, Carles Puigdemont, the independent Catalan politician chose the Brussels Press Club as the venue
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