Category : Updates

EU says COVID pass sufficient for bloc travel

Updating the principles to facilitate protected and free motion within the EU through the pandemic, EU ministers reconfirmed on January 25 the possession of a… Read More »

As media independence backslides across the EU, will Brussels act?

In a transfer reflecting the anti-corruption agenda of Bulgaria’s new government, the parliament handed a invoice that may abolish “golden passports” – a scheme permitting… Learn Extra »

Fortress Europe increasingly stingy on asylum

The tightening of asylum circumstances within the European Union, confirmed by the current crisis between Poland and Belarus, in addition to the ups and downs of the Pact on Migration, recommend a policy that is increasingly restrictive and much far...

A man of many hats

From the USSR to Maidan, a corridor of memories

Essayist Kateryna Mishchenko was seven when Ukraine turned unbiased and 30 when the pro-European protests on Maidan Square triggered the warfare towards Russia that continues to today. Since then, she says, her Soviet previous is just not merely a b...

One way or another

The Soviet Union’s neverending disintegration

Thirty years ago, the Belovezhy Agreement formally put an finish to the Soviet Union. Except for the Baltic nations, the united states disintegrated into smaller post-Soviet entities that still carry the legacy of totalitarianism. This can be a majo...

Roll out the red carpet

Covid&19 contact tracing apps: a €100m failure

Despite European hopes being invested in the know-how, contact tracing apps have solely succeeded in monitoring 5% of registered instances since they have been introduced in the EU. The shortage of public confidence within the scheme has confirmed t...

‘To be born in the USSR was to be born into a state of being’

Born in 1978 in Chișinău, Tatiana Ţîbuleac was 13 years previous when Moldova declared the independence her father had fought for all his life. Yet she was unable to do what everyone anticipated her to do: reduce her ties with Russia and the Russian...

Neighbourly relations

Vessela Tcherneva: ‘From the citizens’ perspective Bulgaria today is the best place we’ve been for many years’

In this new Digital Debates speak with Carl Henrik Fredriksson, Vessela Tcherneva, head of the Sofia office of the ECFR assume tank, talks concerning the democratic renewal in Bulgaria, after the newest elections, and a new coalition taking up from...

Prisons have managed to contain the pandemic, but at what price?

In many European nations, containing the spread of Covid-19 has come at the worth of human rights. European prisoners have needed to endure prolonged isolation, suspended visiting hours, and the cancellation of coaching and recreational actions. Tha...

Xmas’ fault

On both sides of the Polish&Belarusian border, a solidarity that defies persecutions

Faced with the distress of exiles who arrived in Belarus from the Middle East with the false promise of speedy transit to the EU by way of Poland, solidarity is being organised on each side of the border – a dangerous initiative, as the Belarusian r...