Commissioner Kyriakides to strengthen EU-Africa health ties with Ethiopia visit
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides is set to visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, February 5. This visit marks a concerted effort...
Italy’s Meloni opens Africa summit to unveil plan to boost development and curb migration
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni opened a summit of African leaders on Monday aimed at illustrating Italy’s big development plan for the continent that her...
Italy-Africa deal is ‘border control disguised as aid’, say rights groups
Rights groups have warned that the new deal signed between Italy and African states is border control disguised as aid with questions being asked...
War in Europe: Reading the tea leaf’s, hearing the warnings & ignoring the obvious
A Pole, a German, a Frenchmen, and a Swiss meet in a bar, or was it a Swiss, a French, a German, and a...
Is Italy’s $6bn plan for Africa just PR-friendly neocolonialism?
The Mattei Plan was drawn up without any input from African leaders and is named after the controversial founder of Italy’s fossil fuels major...
Dream bigger: The next steps for Italy’s new Africa strategy
This week, during the first ever Italy-Africa summit, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni presented Rome’s much anticipated new Africa strategy. While curbing irregular immigration is...
About 200,000 people protest across Germany against far-right AfD party
Chancellor says protests are ‘strong sign in favour of democracy’ as demonstrators gather in Berlin, Dresden, Hanover and other cities About 200,000 people have...
Angry Farmers Take Protest to EU Summit With Tractors and Fires
BRUSSELS — Farmers descended on Brussels to press a summit of European Union leaders to do more to help them with taxes, rising costs and...
EU’s Global Gateway keeps focus on investments in Africa
The EU will invest around €150B in infrastructure in Africa by 2027. Compared to investments elsewhere in the world, African projects remain a key...
Greece, Italy, France, ‘Seeking Loopholes’ for Journalists’ Surveillance
The International Press Institute, IPI, a global organisation dedicated to the protection of press freedom, has accused Greece, Italy and France of lobbying to...