The 1957 Treaty of Rome set out measures to build a single market through the liberalisation of trade within the European Economic Community. This document also included complementary social measures aimed at improving the living and working conditions of Europeans, maintaining high wages, addressing the imbalances caused by the restructuring of certain economic sectors and equal working conditions for men …

If the Ukrainian and Crimean crises are still a cause for concern in the eyes of the European Union and the United States, it is certain that the challenge launched by Russia to the world in this century is no longer military or ideological, but a global economic challenge. Nobody, a few years ago, believed that the Eurasian economic Union …

A recent scandal has been sweeping across China concerning the coming 2022 Winter Olympics, the hosting country’s vice premier Zhang Gaoli who is the face of China’s organizing efforts ahead of the said event, has now found himself at the centre of an explosive #MeToo scandal that had the world calling for a boycott of the Games, what happened is …

Once again Turkey finds itself in a currency crisis, In fact, the lira lost more than 40 percent of its value against the United States dollar this year, making it the worst-performing of all emerging market currencies, In November alone, the lira lost nearly 30 percent of its value against the dollar and, sinceTurkish businesses that depend on imported goods …

In 2019, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize and was regarded as a regional peacemaker but recently, oddly enough for a Nobel peace prize winner, he has been accused of presiding a protracted civil war that bears the hallmarks of genocide, the displaced people are countless as are the hundreds of thousands of people living …

Besides the common culture, religion and social values, Morocco and Algeria maintain a mutual mistrust, a lack of political will and essential arguments over the Sahara, since their political independence in 1956 and 1962 respectively. They have competing narratives and lack of recognition for the other side. The long disputes that activate the tensions and conflict between them is the …

When we talk about Afghanistan-India relations we usually refer to the diplomatic ties between India and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which ruled over the territory between 2001 and 2021 until the Taliban’s takeover, the two parties are neighbors, they share both historical and cultural traditions and, as a matter of fact, the Republic of India was the only South …

The area between Poland and Belarus is often overlooked, but in recent times the border the two countries share has become more and more of a melting point, for what concerns their relationship it has had good and bad times during the last 26 years, periodically Warsaw played an important intermediary role in improving EU–Belarus relations, in spite of this, however, the bilateral …

The news of the last few days have been focused on one thing and one thing only: COP26, it has been the title of newspapers, broadcasts, podcasts, and every other digital-based tool available on the market, making it impossible for the public to ignore what is probably one of the most crucial gatherings in the last decade and that is …

Since the 1980s, Iranian and US naval forces have had intermittent and occasionally violent confrontations. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), not Iran’s regular navy, has been involved in the majority of the confrontations. Many collisions have happened in or around the Strait of Hormuz, through which up to a third of the world’s seaborne oil passes. Exceptionally,The most recent …