Recently, Spain has witnessed a rising number of refugees and migrants arriving by sea to its shores. Spain’s enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the Spanish territories that have been mainly interested by irregular border crossing in the last years, while main land coasts have never seen as many arrivals as other Mediterranean countries, like […]
The images of the referendum days in Barcelona have been seen alla around the world. They produced mixed feelings in the people and governments both in Europe and the world. On the mainstream media the issue have been covered particularly on the political side. Few people tried to analyze how the possible independence of Catalonia […]
The current international crisis around North Korea is not just a political one, but it has counter effects on the energy field. China recently announced that it will limit energy supplies to North Korea and stop buying its textiles under U.N. sanctions imposed over its nuclear and missile development, further reducing support from Pyongyang’s […]
On the 21 september the third call Interreg Central Europe has been launched. Around 60 million EUR are available for new, transnational cooperation ideas for supporting transnational project ideas that help to improve capacities for urban and regional development in four key priority areas. The Interreg CE Programme supports regional cooperation among nine central […]
Behind the scene of the growing tensions between US president Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un there is a big question: who has supported and keep supporting Pyongyang regime. How it is possible to have such a dictatorship in the middle of South-Eastern Asia growing economy without having trade relations and financial aids […]
One of the main outcomes of the UN General Assembly in 2016 was a declaration demanding for greater international cooperation on managing migration widely endorsed, including the EU, but also criticized by NGOs for lack of clear commitment in putting forward the need to step up in the protection of displaced persons and the most […]
On September the 20th President Tusk addressed the UN General Assembly on behalf of the EU. It was a deep and interesting speech, taking into account the liquid and even more violent international context we are getting used to nowadays. Here is a short sample of the President’s speech: “The EU and the UN were […]
Since the very beginning of their existence, the United Nations have imposed sanctions towards not so many countries. The list of adopted resolutions on sanctions against North Korea is quite longest, though, not exhaustive: 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013), 2270 (2016), 2321 (2016), 2356 (2017). The latest one, 2371 adopted on September […]
It is of course the subject of the moment. But also a fear, a nightmare coming again. The crisis between North Korea and the US seems to prospect nothing positive. Not to hide the fact that it affects now and will affect more in the future even South Corea, Japan, Russia and the European Union. […]
Constant global economic growth is being significantly dependent on wider political cooperation among major political players within the “big chess table”. Political scientists have developed thesis according to which, the XXI century is announced as the “century of China”. Its continuous development of its ways towards the global West lasts for more than a millennium, […]
