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MIGRATION IN EUROPE : WHERE HAS OUR HUMANISM GONE ?

Weeks go by and look just the same. In the mouths of our political leaders, exiles are no more than figures and statistics. On our television screens, the focus is no longer fighting against the extreme-right’s political agenda, but rather on demonstrating the utmost toughness on migration (…)

mardi 26 mars 2024

Democracy Under Pressure in Moldova : the importance of the result and the method

Moldova’s road to the European Union is not a smooth one. In addition to all the reforms the country needs to conduct to align with EU Law, Moldovan democracy is under pressure by pro-Russian political actors trying to undermine its European pathway. The Moldovan government is thus fighting on (…)

samedi 23 mars 2024

Romania’s Support for Moldova’s EU Accession Process

Romania was once where Moldova is today and Moldova wants to be where Romania is today. That is, in essence, what Maia Sandu [claimed->https://realitatea.md/foto-maia-sandu-a-ajuns-la-timisoara-ce-vedem-aici-vrem-si-pentru-republica-moldova during her visit to Timisoara, Romania, on 13 January. (…)

mercredi 21 février 2024

Moldova : a referendum to solidify EU integration

In a speech given on 24 December to mark her third year as president, Maia Sandu simultaneously announced that she would be running for re-election in autumn 2024 and that a referendum on EU integration would be organized in parallel. This announcement came a few days after the European Council (…)

mercredi 10 janvier 2024

Tatsiana Khomich, sister of Maria Kalesnikava : “Maria tore up her passport, she refused to be expelled from Belarus“

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. Tatsiana Khomich is the sister of Maria Kalesnikava, Belarusian political leader who took part in the 2020 presidential campaign and the subsequent demonstrations that (…)

samedi 25 mars 2023

Les entraves des oligarques à l’intégration européenne de la Moldavie

Le mandat de Maia Sandu en tant que Présidente moldave n’a pas été un long fleuve tranquille pour les pro-européens du pays et de l’UE. Les perspectives d’intégration européenne portées par sa victoire aux élections présidentielles de 2020 et la victoire de son parti (PAS) aux élections (…)

samedi 11 mars 2023

The oligarchs’ hurdles to Moldova’s EU integration pathway

The mandate of Maia Sandu as Moldovan president hasn’t been a smooth sail for pro-Europeans in the country and in the EU. The optimism regarding EU-integration raised by her victory in the 2020 presidential elections and her party’s (PAS) victory in the 2021 legislative elections was quickly (…)

vendredi 10 février 2023

The 2009 Czech presidency of the EU and the Eastern partnership

The Czech Republic’s role in the shaping of the Eastern Partnership is extremely interesting to address, not only because it was established during its 2009 Presidency of the EU, but also because of the apparent contradiction existing due to the country’s position as a former Eastern Bloc (…)

lundi 12 septembre 2022

Pateras, Afganistán y migración : concurso de hipocresía entre la Home Office y la Place Beauvau

Las tensiones se intensificaron el mes pasado entre los gobiernos francés y británico a causa de los flujos migratorios en el Canal de la Mancha. Priti Patel, secretario del Ministerio del Interior de Boris Johnson, ha amenazado a Francia con devolver las pateras de migrantes que llegan a sus (…)

mercredi 15 juin 2022

“We feel more European than ever” : Interview with Oleksandra Petrakova, student from Kharkiv

As the war in Ukraine rages on, and Kharkiv is under a rain of Russian missile fire, I managed to talk to Oleksandra Petrakova, a 21-year-old Ukrainian International law student, Young European Ambassador (YEAs), and civil rights activist who calls Kharkiv home. She agreed to answer my questions (…)

vendredi 11 mars 2022

Alona Shkrum, députée ukrainienne : “Nous vaincrons si nous restons unis“

Mardi dernier, le 24 février, la guerre entre l’Ukraine et la Russie débutait. Après des semaines de tensions entre les deux voisins suite aux mouvements de troupes russes aux frontières ukrainiennes, au discours remarqué de Poutine sur la fraternité supposée historique entre Ukrainiens et Russes et une série de négociations conduites pas des leaders occidentaux avec Poutine, ce dernier a décidé, le 21 février, de reconnaître les républiques sécessionnistes de Louhansk et Donetsk, avant de lancer une opération militaire d’envergure sur tout le territoire ukrainien le 24 février. Depuis, les Ukrainiens se sont battus avec courage et détermination contre l’occupant russe. Grâce notamment aux milliers de civils venus renforcer les rangs de la défense armée du pays, ceux-ci sont parvenus à ralentir l’avancée de l’armée russe.