Mr. Gabriel Boric has been elected the new Chilean president in the recent presidential elections held in November. The leftist candidate has beaten the far-right opponent, José Antionio Kast, in an attempt to revolutionize the Chilean economy and to introduce the new wave in the domestic politics, with the younger generation central to the change.             After years of …

South Korea’s President Moon’s mandate is coming to an end, so it’s time to draw conclusions when it comes to his time in office, on one hand, the economy is currently spiraling, relations with Japan are hitting rock bottom, and Moon’s signature policy of deténte with neighboring North Korea is going nowhere, on the other hand, Moon has been globally …

On the 21st of November 2021, regional and municipal elections took place in Venezuela, granting twenty-one over the twenty-three regions to the government’s party. Despite the general opinion of the international observers that the elections went smoothly, this election only highlighted more the major issues in Venezuela. Does a smooth election means a democratical one? For the first time since …

Since a few months, the tension between China and Taiwan increased drastically, which did not help to ease the US-China’s relationship. Mid-2020 China started to send daily military aircraft flyover near Taiwan’s coasts. It raised international concerns on a potential and imminent attack by China over Taiwan, and by normalizing such threat over Taiwan, China is trying to keep its …

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 …

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 …

Monday’s military makeover of power in Sudan which threatens to destroy the country’s fragile transition to democracy, has been severely denounced by the US, EU, and UN, contrarily to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE who have rejected an over-criticizing behaviour. Instead, they called for calm and dialogue.  What happened Monday’s military coup in Sudan is only the last crisis in a turbulent …

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 …

On October 10th, 2021, parliamentary elections were hold in the war-scarred country Iraq, the fifth since the US-led invasion and overthrow of ruler Saddam Hussein in 2003 that gave rise to a complex multi-party system characterized by opposing groups mainly defined by sect or ethnicity. This years’ elections were expected to be an answer to the most compelling issues that …