In the east European state of Ukraine there has been a civil war since 2014. The civil war initially started over Russia attempting to get Ukraine to join the Russian state. After the Ukrainians denied the Russians offer to be absorbed into their state the Russians found another means to get Ukraine into Russia. In the Ukraine there is a… Read more »
Paweł Adamowicz the mayor of Gdansk, Poland, was murdered on Sunday while attending a charity concert that raises money for hospital equipment. As Adamowicz was attending the concert, a man ran on to the stage and stabbed Adamowicz with a six-inch knife. The man then proceeded to celebrate his death by pacing back and forth across the stage with his… Read more »
The Poland Prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, is recently claimed that the European union is discriminating against member states. What Morawiecki is mostly means by this discrimination is that the European Union is demanding certain tasked to be fulfilled by only certain states and not others. For instance, Morawiecki was upset with one of the situations regarding the popular cities of… Read more »
This past week, Malta has announced that they have reached a deal on how refugees stranded at sea for weeks are being granted asylum and will be able to disperse into multiple EU nations. The fact that Malta is the driving force behind rehabilitating these refugees is surprising for a number of reasons, first of all being its size. In… Read more »
The U.K is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29th, but there are still many questions as to how things will end up. British parliament just passed an amendment forcing Theresa May and her administration to come up with a new Brexit proposal for parliament much sooner than it would have been originally. Parliament will vote on Mays “soft”… Read more »
In the United Kingdom, the vote on Brexit is finally going to be coming to pass. They have confirmed the date for the vote to be on next Tuesday, the 15th. After a multitude of setbacks and stalls, the vote will finally occur. This much-aniticipated vote, many years in the making is going to be watched around the world, not… Read more »
The MSC Zoe is one of the largest container ships in the world. Recently, the ship was sailing nearing the northern Germany coast when bad conditions including up to thirty-three foot waves occurred. This caused over 270 shipping containers to fall into the sea. Strong tides have caused these shipping containers to wash up on some beaches in the Netherlands… Read more »
Paul Whelan was arrested in Moscow by Russian special forces on December 28th, 2018, on accusations of espionage. Whelan was a discharged US Marine, serving in Iraq from 2003-2008. During his tour he visited the Russian cities of Moscow and St.Petersburg, even befriending military officers stationed in Moscow. After returning home Whelan became the senior manager of global security and… Read more »
In the time after my previous analysis post, a lot has gone down in the United Kingdom within their parliament. Theresa May’s conservative party held a vote of no confidence, an attempt to oust her. While May did end up winning the vote and staying as the Prime Minister and head of the party, she did lose nearly a third… Read more »
This past week, protestors took to the streets of Budapest in a five day strike to demonstrate opposition towards the new set of laws governing labor payment. These protests were widely unprecedented, as much of Budapest has been in support of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his policies. Statistically, Hungary has seen a lot of benefits in the passing of… Read more »