Over decades, Vladimir Putin has been holding tight – quasi strangling the presidency in Russia. It begs the question, what has this ‘president’ being doing for so long? The answer might sound simplistic but causing trouble would fit comfortably into a spontaneous answer. Where shall one begin, from backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War; Salisbury’s poisonings …

On July 25th 2021, the tunisian president Kais Saïed decided to dismiss any remaining form of democracy, such as firing ministers, suspending the parliament and closing a news media. Some interpret it as a coup, while the president justify it through the constitution (in case of immininent danger threatening the integrity of the country and the country’s security and indepence, …

What’s happening in Afghanistan under Taliban rule is being analyzed and looked upon by the entire international arena, it appears that the newly installed government is committing widespread and serious human rights violations against its subjects, but to pay the highest price have been women based on the recent statements from the Human Rights Watch and the San Jose State …

The rise of the far right in the last decade is of significant relevance as it has been accompanied by a significant increase in the violence perpetrated by individuals belonging to it. While a few years ago Europe was concerned about jihadist attacks, the balance has shifted in favour of attacks perpetrated by the extreme right, with worrying data from …

On the 10th of December 2021, the US Supreme Court gave its decision on the case Whole Women’s Health, giving the right to pro-abortion activists to fight the Texas Heartbeat Act back to a federal court, but allowed meanwhile the remain into stay of the Act. The next day, the California governor reacted to this decision stating on his twitter …

In winter 2022 will take place the Winter Olympics in Beijing. However, in the last few days state’s leaders from the different parts of the world announced a political boycott of this Olympics. It is linked, among others, to the genocide of the Uyghurs perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which has been highlighted and unofficially found by …

During the last few years, Sudan has been ruled by an uneasy alliance between the military and civilian groups, especially since 2019, but recently the military completely seized control of the country and declared a state of emergency, they actively dethroned the power-sharing sovereign council by temporarily detaining Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok alongside his wife and many government ministers and …

It cannot be stressed enough that the EU is a “Union of law” where the rule of law has been the paradigm of the European model and the structure of the common Europe since its foundation. The Treaty on the European Union (TEU) enshrines the rule of law as one of the fundamental values of the EU thereby making it …

In 2009 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and the Democratic Constitutional Rally were dominating the political life in Tunisia by using threats of terrorism and religious extremism as one of the means to put pressure and to dissuade peaceful dissent coming from other parties, in order to install an effective policy of terror, when Ali was elected, he designed laws with …

With its entry into the European Union in 2004, Poland accepted the Acquis Communautaire in its entirety. However, recognizing the body of common rights and obligations that are binding on all EU Member States, dose not only indicate the mere acceptance of the EU’s legal foundations, but it implies that Member States become committed to the application as well as …