Hungary began the week at odds with the EU and ended the week even more so, dragging in its Central European neighbours along the way. EU leaders began a two-day summit on June 24 in Brussels having to deal with the fallout from Hungary’s recently passed anti-LGBT legislation – a …
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Biden-Erdogan Meeting Suggests No Quick Fixes in U.S.-Turkish Relations
Real rapprochement between the US and Turkey may have to wait the result of Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections in 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had his first face-to-face meeting with US President Joe Biden on June 14 on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels. Since Washington …
Read More »ALBANIAN CRIME STORY: HOSTAGE TO THE COCAINE SUPPLY CHAIN
What a kidnapping in Albania reveals about Europe’s growing cocaine habit. There are two ways of interpreting the fact that the annual recorded seizures of cocaine in Europe have been hitting all-time highs every year for the last three years. The record-breaking hauls may, on the one hand, be taken …
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