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Serbia, Youth, And The EU – OpEd

“To be credible, I believe we must talk about timing and homework. And I have a proposal. As we prepare the EU’s next strategic agenda, we must set ourselves a clear goal. I believe we must be ready – on both sides – by 2030 to enlarge. This means that …

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HUMAN MOBILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTERS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN REGION: CHALLENGES AND INSIGHTS.

That climatic and environmental stressors and human mobility have always been intertwined isnothing new. Rather, it traces back to the origin of the humankind, to the exact moment whenunbearable climatic conditions led our ancestors to migrate for the very first time out of Africa.2That’s the story of Homo Sapiens. That’s …

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Turkey is a sanctuary for terrorism financing

Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, much of the international focus on Turkey has centered on its patronage of Hamas. Along with Qatar and Iran, Turkey provides the terrorist entity with safe harbor and material support. What is less widely acknowledged and reported is Ankara’s emerging support of …

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Iran Update, February 18, 2024

Reuters reported on February 18 that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Esmail Ghaani directed Iranian-backed Iraqi groups to “pause” attacks on US forces during a January 29 meeting in Baghdad.[i] Ghaani met with the leaders of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia groups less than 48 hours after the …

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BRICS And The Global South Cooperation – Analysis

Introduction Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, ‘the tectonic plates of geopolitics have been shifting’ and with current geopolitical tensions, including the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Israeli-Hamas war, new alliances and potential rivalry among world powers seeking for influence in Africa and other regions of the world, ‘we …

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Bombing Muslims for Peace

Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel …

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