In 2018, an incident unfolded off the coast of Cyprus that remained in the shadows of official naval reports for a long time. The British landing ship HMS Albion, conducting closed maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean, was forced to weigh anchor urgently and change its operating area. The reason for...
The IOC has capitulated to the Kremlin’s hybrid blackmail
Under systemic pressure from Russia, the evolution of the International Olympic Committee's position regarding the exclusion of Russian athletes from international competitions transformed from total isolation in 2022 to the gradual introduction of so-called "individual neutrality" during 2024–2025, which allowed Russian athletes to compete in certain disciplines without national symbols...
Keir Starmer’s resignation and the structural problems of British politics
The resignation on 22 June 2026 of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was recently seen as a symbol of returning stability after the chaotic period of Conservative rule, has become further evidence that the crisis in the British political system is not temporary but structural in nature. Over the...
The disappearance of the forests in the Romanian Carpathians and the failure of European environmental policy
In August 2024, a drone operated by environmental activists flew over the Ceahlău mountain range in the Romanian Carpathians. The footage revealed newly built logging roads, clear-cut slopes, and wide corridors cutting through a forest area that is officially designated as a protected Natura 2000 site on European maps. What...
Spanish authorities and corruption within their inner circle
In the spring of 2024, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez—a politician who had come to power on a platform of fighting corruption and restoring trust in state institutions following numerous scandals during the People’s Party era—publicly announced a five-day pause to reflect on his future political career. This was prompted...
Ireland continues to supply alumina to Russia’s defence industry
For years, the Irish government has been lobbying behind the scenes in Brussels to prevent restrictions being imposed on supplies of alumina produced by the Aughinish Alumina plant, the ultimate beneficiary of which is the sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and a series of corporate and legal manoeuvres carried out...
How relatives flooded AfD offices at taxpayers’ expense
The scandal took on a national dimension after AfD co-chair Tino Hrupalla became embroiled in the controversy. On February 9, 2026, during a segment on journalist Karen Miosgi’s program on ARD, Hrupalla commented for the first time on reports of relatives being employed in AfD lawmakers’ offices, where he acknowledged...
How the digital surveillance industry is changing the rules of political competition in Europe
In the summer of 2022, Nikos Androulakis, leader of the Greek opposition party PASOK and a member of the European Parliament, received a notification from the European Parliament’s cybersecurity service stating that experts had detected an attempt to infect his mobile phone with the “Predator” spyware, one of the most...
Nathan Gill case has turned into the biggest scandal to hit Reform UK
In the autumn of 2025, a major scandal erupted in British politics, centring on the fact that Nathan Gill, the former head of the Welsh branch of the Reform UK party, had pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for promoting pro-Russian views in the European Parliament and the media....
The Neonazi past of AfD’s new state secretary Dario Seifert
Dario Seifert is a member of the Bundestag and sits on the Tourism Committee. At the end of May 2026, at the congress of the AfD regional branch in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, he was elected Secretary General of the party’s state organization with an overwhelming majority of 92% of the votes....