Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Despite scepticism, Europe has high vaccination rates – but it shouldn’t be complacent
Luiscar74/ShutterstockIf news stories are anything to go by, Europe is performing poorly when it comes to vaccination – and the “anti-vaxxer” is to blame. In Britain, public memory still persists of the infamous measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) controversy, arising from a now debunked 1998 Lancet article about a link to autism. MMR vaccine uptake...
American Member of Watchdog OSCE Killed in Ukraine
April 24, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Mogherini: EU Stands Firm on Crimea Sanctions Against Russia
April 24, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Geopolitics of Nuclear Weapons
Originally produced on April 17, 2017 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman, Xander Snyder and Cheyenne Ligon Nuclear bombs have a strange quality: They are a type of weapon that countries spend enormous sums of money to develop but don’t actually intend to use. While chemical weapons have been frequently used in war, no country has...
Recent publications by the IEP (Germany)
Axt, Heinz-Jürgen, Populism and Euroscepticism in Greece: Left and Right United (TruLies Blog), April 2017 Normally, it is difficult to imagine a left wing and a right wing populist party building a government coalition together. In Greece, however, this has been a reality since the election of 25 January 2015. While the leftist populist party...
April 24th, 2017
CHINA Elderly Woman Dies Under Rubble in Forced Demolition in China’s JiangxiRADIO FREE ASIA Hu Xianglan, who was in her eighties, was trapped in the rubble as bulldozers moved in on her family home near Jiangxi’s Wuzhou city, according to photos and eyewitness accounts. By the time her body was retrieved from the rubble, it was...
EU’s Litmus Test in the Western Balkans
Moscow’s meddling in the western Balkans has increased, while the West’s attention has focused on Russian activities in Ukraine and in the Baltic region. With the exception of Serbia, all the other countries in the western Balkans have indicated their desire to be part of the NATO alliance (Albania and Croatia are NATO members). Each...
Declaration of the Rights of France
By Jacob L. Shapiro The first round of voting in France’s presidential election is over, and pre-election polls seem to have predicted the correct outcome. As of this writing, exit polls show Emmanuel Macron won 23.7 percent of the vote, while Marine Le Pen received 21.7 percent. The two candidates will now go head-to-head in a May 7...
#Newnormal from eastern Ukraine
Article | It’s been three years since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Before the conflict, people lived in another reality. Now their daily life has changed utterly. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
OSCE Monitoring Mission patrol member killed in Luhansk oblast
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observer was killed after the car he was traveling in hit a mine near the village of Pryshyb in the Luhansk region …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
