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Brexit: The Conservative Party drives the UK and Europe to a perilous road

October 9, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The Tories, the governing party of Britain is falling apart, being deeply divided about the kind of Brexit their country should pursue. It’s not the disastrous political circumstances of Prime Minister Theresa May that blocks the negotiations with the European Union, but the chaos dividing the hard Brexiteers from their colleagues preferring a smooth partition […]

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Why is Merkel’s Germany so liberal with the refugees? Did the last elections change that?

March 17, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

There are many lessons to be learned from last Sunday’s elections in Germany. For one thing, the widely expected electoral setback that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) experienced last Sunday doesn’t seem to constitute a major blow to her dominant political status. She continues to be the central […]

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May 30, 2023

This article was written for The European Sting by one of our passionate readers, Mr. Alexandros K. Liakopoulos. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not necessarily The European Sting’s position on the issue. Current affairs bomb us all every second with hard doses of reality. Reality is not about conversations, bullet points and […]

Pandemics of the Past and the Uncertain Road Ahead

May 18, 2023

This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Dr. Amity Gumber. Public Health, Professional as a niche in Health Policy analysis from India. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writers and do not necessarily reflect IFMSA’s view on the topic, nor The European Sting’s one. Throughout history, humanity has faced numerous […]

Monkeypox, an emerging pandemic

November 16, 2022

This article was written for The European Sting by one of our passionate readers, Ms. Maryam Omar Alamodi, a 4th year medical student at Alfaisal University, college of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not necessarily The European Sting’s position on the issue. While the world is […]

The Baltic States and the European Defence Fund: results for the first call available

August 9, 2022

This article was written for The European Sting by one of our passionate readers, Mr Donatas Palavenis. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not necessarily The European Sting’s position on the issue. The commentary reviews the results of the 2021 Calls for Proposals for the European Defence Fund (EDF) where participants from […]

Georgia’s EU bid: chasing a solution to domestic issues?

August 8, 2022

This article was written for The European Sting by the political correspondent Ms. Katarzyna Rybarczyk. The opinions expressed within reflect only the writer’s views and not necessarily The European Sting’s position on the issue. Since the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia began in 2009, Georgia has come a long way in terms of preparing to […]

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