Ukraine has been on mouths of everyone in the recent days due to the seemingly escalating reluctance towards the possibility of them joining NATO. Currently, Russia has amounted more than 100.000 troops at the border with Ukraine, resulting in increased tensions surrounding the region. Multiple international decision-makers have addressed this issue, with Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with the NATO …

            The Pegasus spyware is a system designed to invigilate the users’ activities via smartphones and mobile devices. Currently, due to increasing tensions regarding unfair use of the system, the security and data protection of citizens have been challenged. Among the Pegasus data leakage scandal in Poland recently and the Pegasus Project Investigation, doubts have been raised in regard to …

The election of the new Iranian President, the principlist Ibrahim Raisi on June 18th, 2021, has occurred in a crucial moment in which Iran and the West were engaged in ongoing technical negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Iran’s new President is trusted by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has …

The history of Western Sahara is characterized by occupation. Since the end of the 19th century, its territory has been occupied by Spain, which exploited the large fishing grounds and the phosphate and hydrocarbon finds. During the 1960s, the UN insisted on the country’s decolonization, to which Spain gave in and announced a referendum (UN General Assembly, 1974). However, the …

            Mr. Gabriel Boric has been elected the new Chilean president in the recent presidential elections held in November. The leftist candidate has beaten the far-right opponent, José Antionio Kast, in an attempt to revolutionize the Chilean economy and to introduce the new wave in the domestic politics, with the younger generation central to the change.             After years of …

The news of the last few days has been filled with mentions of Bishop Desmond Tutu but many still have no idea who he was and why he became so important and globally respected. The bishop was born in 1931 in Transvaal. and later ordained as a priest in 1960, in 1978 he managed to become the first black General …

Since a few years, the EU is under an acute migration crisis, which is regulated throught the Dublin III regulation. However, meanwhile, UK citizens decided to leave the EU due to the main reasons that they wanted back the control of their frontiers. Therefore, migrants trying to escape the consequences of their application within the EU system, now try to …

Kim Jong-Un, the globally-known North Korean leader, is the youngest of Kim Jong II’s three sons, but kinship wasn’t the only factor that linked the current ruler of North Korea to his father, he used to accompany him on military inspections at a very young age and as soon as he got older, it was thought that he worked either …

In these months, Vienna has been the scene of the negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. We are, in particular, witnessing the seventh round of negotiations that, during the last week, has reached a return to a constructive dialogue between the counterparts. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted in 2015, which originally included Russia, Iran, China, …

In these days we have witnessed the increasing of Russia’s military presence in the area next to the Eastern Ukraine border. Russia has built up several logistic centres hosting troops, armed vehicles, air forces and naval personnel. The Russian government justifies its presence at the border saying that it is part of the military exercise they are currently conducting; in …