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"The situation is changing. Even Ukraine has suggested a Russian attack is not imminent".

War with Russia, a chance for Johnson?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Boris Johnson is in big troubles, not only with his voters, but also in the UK Parliament with the opposition and with MP’s of his own Conservative party

By including some nuclear and natural-gas electricity generation, ‘Brussels’ seeks to unlock hundreds of billions of euros in private and government investment for climate-friendly projects.

EU’s crazy war on natural gas

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 26, 2022

The European Commission this month said nuclear and natural-gas power can be climate-friendly after all

A few years ago, Roberta Metsola joined her Maltese EP colleagues in saying they were ‘categorically against abortion’.

European Parliament elects an anti-abortion President

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Roberta Metsola has been elected as the youngest ever President of the European Parliament and the first woman in the role for 20 years

Looking at the map, you see Russia flanked at the western and south side by 9 NATO memberstates: the 3 Baltic countries, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, January 10, 2022

Are Russian forces getting ready for war in Ukraine? That is the (faked?) fear among Western leaders and the comedian who is now President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky

According to German daily Bild, Scholz is looking for a ‘fresh start’ for Germany’s policy on Russia and might be planning a meeting with Russian President Putin.

New Bundeskanzler on collision course with Green top ministers

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 5, 2022

The Green party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck succeeded in establishing themselves a prominent position in the German government

A day after Lithuania decided to recall its diplomats from Beijing, the 27 EU leaders meeting in Brussels devoted little time to the unprecedented spat.

‘China humiliates the EU’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, December 20, 2021

As EU member state Lithuania sought to deepen diplomatic ties with Taiwan, Beijing made an example of the Baltic country by flexing its massive trade muscle and stopping imports of Lithuanian goods

Would a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics make a difference?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Would a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics in February make a difference? Should western politicians stay away because of ongoing human rights violations in China?

Tajani tweeted: ‘Long live Christmas. Long live the EU of the common sense’.

European Commission’s ‘woke’ U-turn

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 1, 2021

At the end of October, Helena Dalli, the Maltese European Commissioner for Equality launched ‘Commission guidelines for inclusive communication’

"Like much of what happens in international life, COP26 was less about solving difficult problems than helping politicians survive their inability to provide effective leadership on issues that matter".

The Glasgow COP26 Summit

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Is there anyone surprised that COP26 failed to solve the climate problem?

"It is clear, the new pipeline plays its role in the new ‘cold war’ between the EU and Russia".

Setback for Nord Stream 2: German consumers pay the price

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 17, 2021

EU wholesale gas prices have risen by 17% after Germany’s regulator suspended approval of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany

According to EU figures, 7.935 migrants from Belarus have entered the EU: 4.216 in Lithuania, 414 in Latvia and 3.305 in Poland. The migrants try to travel on from there.

How the EU deals with Lukashenko’s hybrid warfare

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Since the summer, the EU has been confronted with a new type of challenge, a form of hybrid warfare in which migrants are used as weapons

The EU is fragmented; tensions and divisions have increasingly built up in the crisis years since 2010 and are paralysing the EU both internally and externally.

Future of Europe Conference: a flop

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, November 2, 2021

EU federalists in particular, and other europhiles in general, had great expectations for the Conference on the Future of Europe

"The Commission’s ‘toolbox’ of short-term measures available to member states was widely endorsed".

EU doesn’t want to react “hastily” on high energy prices

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 27, 2021

After last week, EU heads of government failed to reach an agreement after 10 hours of discussion, they passed the hot issue to an emergency meeting of EU energy-ministers

The report concludes that environmental improvements of the Farm to Fork strategy would be accompanied by a 10% reduction of EU supply for agricultural products, reaching a maximum of 15% reduction for meats.

‘Sneaky’ Commission tried to conceal important study

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 20, 2021

MEP’s were furious that the Commission put an important study for half a year ‘in somebody’s draw in an office’ to keep it away from the EP

"It is clear. The EU’s energy system, which has sought to banish domestic fossil fuels, has left the member states vulnerable to the global surge in oil and gas prices."

Rising energy prices expose EU’s dependence

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Rising energy prices are mercilessly exposing dependence of the EU. The EU must import 90 percent of its gas, 43 percent of which came through Gazprom last year

"Although 89 Sahrawi organisations wrote a letter of protest to the European Commission against the conclusion of fishing and trade agreements with Morocco over the area belonging to the Sahrawi people, the Commission continued the deals."

EU fisheries policy: destructive and un-democratic

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The EU is no longer allowed to fish the ocean off Western Sahara without the consent of the people of Western Sahara, according to the European (read: EU) Court of Justice

"Whenever a major crisis occurred at home or in the EU, Germans and other Europeans knew, that a sound, well-informed and skilfully negotiating Chancellor Angela Merkel would solve the problems as best as possible and would minimise the damage."

Better than Merkel

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The end of the Merkel era makes many people nervous

"He was the man who was going to turn the horrible Trump page."

‘Biden is Trump without tweets’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The EU is an illusion poorer. ‘They’ were so excited when Joe Biden was elected

A Eurosceptic as one of the most powerful leaders in the EU? It could bring a refreshing new tone in the monotonous ‘more EU’ debate.

Barnier, from Europhile to Eurosceptic

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Speaking at a campaign event in Nimes, Michel Barnier told his audience that he, if been elected French President, would propose a referendum on a so-called ‘constitutional shield’ on immigration issues