Current Affairs

The death of Elizabeth II: an opening for a republican and federal path for the United Kingdom?

Changes in political systems worldwide have generally been borne out of a mix of times of crisis and an end of certainties. Look at the French Ancien Régime, for example, washed away by the waves of revolution amid a terrible financial and subsistence crisis during which the monarchy’s (...)

Friday 30 September 2022

Words and Actions: Understanding The UK’s Contradictory Stance on Ukraine

The United Kingdom is a country which has historically prided itself on its support of humanitarianism. Thinking globally is the basis of Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit vision of a “Global Britain”. It may seem bewildering then that the UK is the only country in Europe which does not accept Ukrainian (...)

Friday 16 September 2022

Race to 10 Downing Street: How the next Reaganite could further deter relations with the EU

The race to be UK’s next Prime Minister is now down to 2- Liz Truss, the current Foreign Secretary and the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whose resignation led to the start of backlash and the ultimate fall of Boris Johnson as the PM. The final two candidates will be trying to convince Tory (...)

Monday 15 August 2022

The return of history, and Europe’s place in it

This article has been approved by the JEF Belgium winter federal committee as an official position paper of the section. After the fall of the Berlin wall, in Europe and the West as a whole, a certain triumphalism was the norm. A widespread idea emerged that liberal democracy and neoliberalism (...)

Monday 18 July 2022

The UK and Brexit: the picture today

The aftermath of Brexit in 2022 In June 2016, British people decided to leave the European Union after a referendum which saw 51% of the UK population in favour of, and 48% against, Brexit. It took four years to complete the exit from the EU and on 31st December 2020, the agreement was (...)

Tuesday 5 July 2022

Value-based healthcare and its role in clinical practice: How to apply VBHC to EU Healthcare workers

As we’re living in a world where the connection between patients and their caregivers is really the main point of the healthcare system, creating a meaningful understanding of the pathology from the patient and building the trust with the caregiver, it is interesting to highlight the positive (...)

Thursday 26 May 2022

A symbol of change in Northern Ireland

On Thursday last week, Northern Irish voters went to the polling booths as part of UK-wide local council elections. The result was historic: the Irish republican party, Sinn Féin (We ourselves in Irish) gained the largest number of seats in the Northern Irish Assembly for the first time in the (...)

Thursday 12 May 2022

World Day for Laboratory Animals: what’s the status in the EU?

Squeezed between International Book Day (23rd April) and International Labour Day (1st May), the 24th April gets somewhat lost in TNF’s list of international days of awareness. But it should not - 24th April is the World Day for Laboratory Animals. Since its establishment in 1979 in 2015. In the (...)

Sunday 24 April 2022

WHAT EMMANUEL MACRON’S POTENTIAL RE-ELECTION MEANS FOR FRANCE AND THE EU

French President Emmanuel Macron will face off Marine Le Pen in the second round of one of the most consequential elections in French history on Sunday, April 24. If elected again, Emmanuel Macron will go on to be the first president to be re-elected to office in 20 years. After the conclusion (...)

Sunday 24 April 2022

Hungary Elections – a short commentary

Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party are not friends of the federalist movement, nor of Europe in general. Their nationalist populist agenda has dominated the last 12 years in Hungary, downgrading its democracy to become a “hybrid regime” (according to the democracy index) and eroding the electoral (...)

Tuesday 5 April 2022

China´s role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Let China Sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world The end of the Cold War was never going to usher in perpetual peace. But this war in Ukraine is giving new form to the possibilities for future conflict and ways in which it may be averted. The war’s reverberations sound most (...)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

The Russo-Ukrainian war: a war of values and narratives

The right to self determination is universal. Russia’s invasion represents a gross violation of international norms and peace, and merits universal condemnation as well as severe repercussions. Beginning in March 2021, Russia has begun to move military forces and heavy equipment to its borders (...)

Monday 7 March 2022
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