It has been a little over a year since Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg began skipping school on Fridays to hold solo protests outside the Swedish parliament against its alleged inaction on climate change. She has since addressed European Union leaders and crossed the Atlantic on a boat to testify to the U.S. Congress and speak…
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto sees no need for deeper economic sanctions against Russia as long as the status quo holds, but also says that Finland, a European Union member but not a NATO one, does not support easing pressure on the Kremlin either. Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer border with Russia, suffers from Kremlin counter-sanctions…
President Volodymyr Zelensky returned a new Electoral Code to the Ukrainian parliament on Sept. 14 without his approval, stating that the law contradicted Ukraine’s current constitution. Now the parliament will have 30 days to amend the Electoral Code vetoed by the president, or it will be dropped. The draft law, effectively vetoed by the president,…
The German Embassy in Ukraine has congratulated the newly elected Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada on taking the oath and declared its readiness to support the course of democratic reforms. “Sincere congratulations to Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Razumkov, Prime Minister of Ukraine Honcharuk, all the ministers and all the parliamentarians who took…
