Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni opened the new year of 2023, on the very 1st of January, with the adoption of a new decree (Italian Decree-Law 1/2023) which imposes relevant obstacles to the work of NGOs that provide search and rescue of migrants at sea. Over the past years, the Italian government attempted on multiple occasions to contribute to the promotion of the …

Populist “anti-European” parties are set for substantial gains in the upcoming June European elections, potentially tilting the parliamentary balance significantly to the right and posing a threat to crucial aspects of the EU’s agenda.  A comprehensive analysis, incorporating polling from all 27 EU member states and modelling past European parliament elections, indicates that radical right parties are likely to secure …

Background The environment and inflicting damage on the environment as a means or method of warfare is not new. Manipulating environmental conditions, such as instigating floods or using chemicals to harm the environment has existed throughout the decades. Indeed, deliberately inflicting harm on the environment can have considerable consequences in wartime especially on the civilian population and has been the …

The World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the major suppliers of the foods needed to feed millions throughout the world. But new funding cuts have worried observers about the organization’s future in conflict-torn countries such as Yemen and Syria. And if the WFP were to withdraw from these countries, food security would suffer an enormous setback.  The World Food Programme (WFP) …

Since 2013-2014 European press and mass media started talking about “migration crisis” or “refugee crisis”, according to which more and more people coming from different parts of Middle East and North Africa were forced to migrate to Europe in search for a better future. These prominent waves of migrants were the result of continuous conflicts in the MENA area, especially …

During the past several decades, globalization has played a significant role in the rise of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, as the ease of international travel and the advances in technology and communications erased geographical boundaries in the movement of goods. Besides the in-person antiquities trade, the globalization of technology and the rise of cryptocurrencies have introduced an additional …

In August 2022, The Malaysian Court of Appeals overturned a landmark 2021 High Court Ruling that allowed Malaysian Women married to Foreigners to pass down their citizenship to their children born aboard. The Court of Appeals, by overturning the decision in this case, have denied women the right automatically bestowed on Malaysian men. This discriminatory provision in the Federal Constitution …

When South Sudan achieved independence in 2011, its conditions led to hopes for the possibility of positive development for the new nation. The act of self-determination concretised in a remarkably peaceful secession from the parent State of Sudan, combined with a richness in natural resources such as oil and gold, however, were not sufficient to counterbalance some of the structural …

An armed conflict between China and the United States would have catastrophic consequences. Not only would it cost many lives and entail incalculable risks of escalation, but it would also cause political disorder and imply high economic costs for the European Union. Out of peace policy and economic self-interest, Europe should therefore work to maintain the peaceful status quo in …

That zone is situated just before the “Green line” (border between Israel and the West Bank) and of the many fronts within the Middle East conflict, Masafer Yatta is a particularly ugly one. In the “Wild West” of Palestine, 1300 people are threatened with displacement – in favour of a training area for the Israeli army. Just recently, a demolition …