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By policing history, Poland’s government is distorting the Holocaust

February 25, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Jan Grabowski, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa In January 2018, the Polish parliament passed a law that imposed prison terms of up to three years of anyone who claimed Poles had any responsibility for or complicity [Read More]

Europe

Strikes over the past 50 years have barely made a dent in the French economy

February 24, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Patrice Laroche, IAE Nancy School of Management In France, more than 1.2 million people (2.8 million, according to trade unions) took to the streets against proposed pension reform on Tuesday, exceeding crowds galvanised by the [Read More]

Greece

Debate: Sorry, British Museum, a loan of the Parthenon Marbles is not a repatriatio

February 23, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Increasingly, the mood in the UK is leaning towards repatriating the Parthenon Marbles. Justin Norris/Creative Commons Catharine Titi, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas In the last few weeks, we have been regularly reminded that secret talks [Read More]

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Russia pulls out of New Start nuclear treaty – we’ve already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine

February 22, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses. Stocks in defence corporations will rise at the [Read More]

Covid

I bonded with COVID vaccine sceptics over saunas and Mother Earth rituals – this is what they taught me

February 22, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Lund University I was standing in a forest at night, by a dark lake taking part in a Mother Earth ritual. Shaman drums echoed between the cliffs. The witch leading the ritual suddenly [Read More]

Opinion

A year on, Russia’s war against Ukraine could go in three different directions

February 21, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po and Cyrille Bret, Sciences Po The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town which Moscow views as key to gain control of the [Read More]

Opinion

Ukraine war: ‘soccer plot’ raises fears of fresh Russian attempts to destabilise neighbouring Moldova

February 20, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham Moldova has been sliding into yet another crisis following the resignation of its prime minister, Natalia Gavrilita, and fears that Russia was plotting a coup to overthrow the pro-western president, [Read More]

Mediterranean Focus

Why have so many earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria?

February 20, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Romain Jolivet, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL and Laurent Jolivet, Sorbonne Université Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are common, but the magnitude 7.8 that shook the region on 6 February at 4:17am local time [Read More]

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Carlos Saura, the filmmaker who took Spanish identity all over the planet

February 20, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Gabriel Doménech González, Universidad Carlos III On more than one occasion he declared that if he stopped working, he would die. And, indeed, death caught up with him at work. On Friday 10 February 2023, [Read More]

Europe

Could Lithuania hold the key to Europe’s energy security?

January 25, 2023 Famagusta Gazette 0

Anastasiya Shapochkina, Sciences Po On 19 October, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU had replaced two-thirds of its Russian gas imports since February by switching to other suppliers. Such a [Read More]

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 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday evening that he would suspend the legislation of his contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary by about a month to allow “dialogue” between coalition and opposition [Read More]

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for calm on Monday as the country was caught in turmoil over the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the judicial system. “I call on protesters from the right and [Read More]
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