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European Union/Israel: Time to choose on trade agreements

Manue Ouzo — 2025-07-21T19:11:00Z

“ To be clear, even if it is a step forward, the position of the EU foreign ministers is not a guarantee.”

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Economy, Israel, European Union

Let Vlad stay

Maiznica — 2025-07-18T08:53:08Z

A Riga-based social-centre project called “Maiznica” is facing repression from state security services and the expulsion of one of their members from the country. In this press release from the Collective they aim to spread the news to a wider audience.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Latvia, Russia, European Union

Peace between neofascists and war on oppressed peoples

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-02-22T08:16:00Z

That Washington and Moscow have chosen the Saudi kingdom as the venue for a meeting between their delegations to discuss the prospects of the war that has been ongoing in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded that country three years ago, is evidence of the profound changes occurring in international affairs before our eyes. The manner of the meeting itself is entirely consistent with the venue: Donald Trump's neofascist administration did not seek to promote peace between the warring parties within the framework of international law and the United Nations, as China has been calling for since the beginning of the conflict, but is rather seeking to conclude a direct agreement with the equally neofascist regime of Vladimir Putin, at the expense of the Ukrainian people. It is therefore only natural that the two parties did not choose a neutral arena consistent with international law, such as the United Nations, but one consistent with their nature, even if its despotic regime is of the traditional type.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Palestine, United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, Far Right, European Union

Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces'

Hanna Perekhoda — 2025-02-19T10:49:10Z

In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.

- Features / Russia, Ukraine, European Union

Understanding the Implications of US Vice President JD Vance's Confrontational Speech at the Munich Security Conference

Daniel Tanuro — 2025-02-18T09:01:01Z

In a highly confrontational speech delivered at the Munich Security Conference opening on 14 February, US Vice President JD Vance declared that the “internal threat” facing Europe was more serious than that posed by Russia and China. He criticised the annulment of a recent election in Romania, the prosecution of an anti-abortion protester in the United Kingdom, and the exclusion of far-right and far-left German politicians from the event itself.

- IVP601- February 2025 / United States (USA), Ukraine, European Union

Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism

Thierry Labica — 2025-01-25T20:42:24Z

Newly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, European Union, Greenland

The looters' ball in Africa

Paul Martial — 2024-12-26T14:08:14Z

This was US President Joe Biden's first and last trip to Africa, just a few weeks before the end of his mandate. His visit to Angola at the beginning of December was not insignificant, as the country is the centrepiece of a major investment for the USA and the European Union (EU): the Lobito Corridor. The Lobito Corridor project, from Zambia to Angola, is part of a heightened inter-imperialist competition for control of Africa's critical resources.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, European Union, Zambia, Angola

In Portugal, the right-wing party confirms its majority

Daniel Borges — 2024-06-29T21:11:20Z

On the night of 9 June, the secretary general of the Socialist Party (PS) announced that his party was the big winner of the European elections and that the PS "is now the leading political force in Portugal".

- IV593 - June 2024 / Portugal, European Union

EU Parliamentary elections show reactionary thrust and nuclei of resistance

Léon Crémieux — 2024-06-29T17:28:11Z

The European parliamentary elections of 6-9 June 2024 gave a picture of the political forces present in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU), which above all reflects an increase for the conservative right, the European People's Party (EPP) group, which gained 13 MEPs with 189 seats, and the two far-right groups, Identity and Democracy (ID) and the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), which in total gained 21 seats with 141 MEPs. Despite numerous disagreements between (…)

- IV593 - June 2024 / European Union

Rightwing alliance strengthened in Italy

Hélène Marra — 2024-06-22T21:07:00Z

The European election results illustrate, albeit in a distorted way, the serious social and political crisis that has followed decades of liberal austerity measures. It is above all the far right that is reaping the votes of the most disenchanted, who delusively believe that they can avoid downgrading by crushing those at the bottom and embracing the dangerous ideology of "national preference" and racism.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Italy, European Union