EU Commission: four priorities for research and innovation “for a sustainable future”. €95 billion funding

Germany: the pandemic takes its toll on German cathedrals. Fewer devotees, financial losses. The case of Cologne

Elections in The Netherlands: COVID-19 and restrictive measures are taking a toll on the country, but not on Prime Minister Rutte

Marcel Klok, an expert in macro-economics, released an in-depth research on the political situation in the Netherlands. Elections are being…

Syria: 10 years of civil war.  Fr Jallouf (Idlib): “The situation in Syria is only bound to get worse.” The threefold impact of conflict, sanctions and COVID-19 on the local population

The Syrian conflict enters its tenth year ( March 15, 2011), with almost half a million deaths. Some 12 million…

Coronavirus Covid-19: Eurostat, 580 thousand more deaths from March to December 2020. Country-by-country figures

America in the mirror one year into pandemic

Yesterday the United States marked a painful and grim one-year anniversary, with 529,079 deaths, 29,150,069 people infected and some 10…

Mons. Overbeck (COMECE) ,“it was not a failure in the workings of the world but a challenge to our faith and to the meaning of life”

The shocking number of deaths from COVID-19 in Europe in this year of pandemic: over 900,000 not counting 125,000 in…

Father Celso Ba Shwe (Loikaw), “Help us, or Myanmar will  soon turn into a burial ground”

The heartbreaking account from the diocese of Loikaw by Father Celso Ba Shwe, Apostolic Administrator. “Many cities in Myanmar are…

Future of Europe Conference: Costa (EU Council), “message of confidence and hope”. Von der Leyen (Commission), “we will listen to citizens”

Future of Europe Conference: Sassoli (EP), “we are getting started”. It will be a workshop to “shape our future”

Russia and Europe: a dangerous tug of war. Historical legacy and present diffidence

The persistent tensions between Moscow and Western Europe – recently marked by the Navalny case – are rooted in a…