European Migrant Crisis: Islamic terrorism in Europe walks a dangerous path
Jul 27, 2016 05:57 am UTC| Commentary
A priest and four other people were taken hostages in a Catholic Church in Normandy, France by two Islamic militants and they first made the priest kneel down and then slit his throat with a knife. These two men were...
European Refugee Crisis: four attacks within a week likely to weigh over German election
Jul 25, 2016 11:19 am UTC| Commentary
Four attacks within a span of four weeks have rocked German people to the core. On 19th July, an afghan man attacked with aknife and anaxe in Wuerzburg that severely injured four people. On Friday, June 22nd, David Ali...
Explaining the Istanbul bombing: Turkey's six foreign policy sins
Jun 30, 2016 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
You dont have to be an avid follower of international news to have heard about the terror attack at Istanbuls Ataturk airport Turkeys biggest and Europes third largest hub for air travel. Most likely carried out by ISIS,...
Is it racist to complain about EU migration?
Jun 22, 2016 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The debate on the EU referendum has increasingly become a debate about immigration. And what began as a debate about immigration whether Britain is better off managing migration within or outside of the EU has in many...
Brexit and benefits: why leaving the EU won't solve Britain's migration issues
Jun 21, 2016 11:21 am UTC| Insights & Views
Migration is one of the key issues of the British EU referendum debate; it has been widely discussed among politicians, by the media and among families, friends and local communities. The free movement of people is an...
Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deterioriate
Jun 21, 2016 11:03 am UTC| Insights & Views
While the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean seems calmer than this time last year, the policy and political crisis its created in Europe remains largely unresolved and thousands of people are caught in the...
Bad news for most vulnerable as court rules UK can restrict child benefit for EU migrants
Jun 20, 2016 07:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
As the campaign ahead of the UK referendum on EU membership reached its endpoint, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared that UK restrictions on the access that EU citizens have to child benefit and child tax credit...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight