Tag: european union

• The European Union may soon get its own Magnitsky Act to target human rights abusers

  September 20, 2020

  Amid a global assault on human rights stretching from Belarus to Hong Kong to Yemen, the European Union signaled yesterday that it may act to deter corrupt kleptocrats and state… more ›

• Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to criminals and fugitives

  August 23, 2020

  Convicted fraudsters, money launderers and political figures accused of corruption are among dozens of people from more than 70 countries who have bought so-called “golden passports” from Cyprus, according to… more ›

• Who are the super rich who buy a new nationality?

  August 23, 2020

  Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has obtained a leak of documents revealing that more than 2,500 people paid to become Cypriot citizens between 2017 and 2019. With applicants from more than… more ›

• Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test

  July 21, 2020

  In early 2018, millions of digital clocks across Europe began falling behind time. Few took notice at first as slight disruptions in the power supply caused bedside alarms and oven… more ›

• UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying

  January 10, 2020

  The British government has been accused of “behaving like a bunch of cowboys” after a confidential report revealed it had allowed illegal copying of an EU database. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/uk-accused-of-behaving-like-cowboys-over-eu-database-copying more ›

• ‘The New Berlin Wall’: Why Ukraine Is Central to the Scandal

  September 27, 2019

  IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — His voice crackling over what he complained was a “terrible” sound system, Donald J. Trump in September 2015 heaped praise on the oligarch who had invited him… more ›

• Far-Right Extremists Have Been Using Ukraine’s War as a Training Ground. They’re Returning Home.

  August 17, 2019

  Five years on, Mikael Skillt still doesn’t know exactly what made him leave his construction job and his girlfriend to fight in the war in Ukraine. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb95ma/far-right-extremists-have-been-using-ukraines-civil-war-as-a-training-ground-theyre-returning-home more ›

• When Oligarchs Buy Media: A Central European Tale

  December 1, 2018

  When Oligarchs Buy Media: A Central European Tale How the financial crisis precipitated a mass exodus of Western investment from Central Europe—and paved the way for oligarchic takeovers of media.… more ›

• How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and…

  May 26, 2018

  How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and stifled human rights » In the women’s movement in Central Europe, there are few moments to celebrate. Polish women successfully preventing a… more ›

• Populist international

  January 26, 2017

  Populist international “Another big winner in the election was Cambridge Analytica. Steve Bannon, a Cambridge Analytica board member and publisher of the ultra-rightwing online site Breitbart News, was named Trump’s… more ›