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Just two days prior to French President Macron’s phone call with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Feb. 16, officials of the Economic Ministries of the two countries signed an agreement to finance seven joint projects in third countries, six of which are in Africa. The projects, which are worth more than €1.5 billion, cover infrastructure, environmental protection and energy. […]

The EU-African Union summit in Brussels Feb. 17-18 ended with an attempt by Brussels to sell Africa a scheme to produce so-called “green hydrogen” for Europe in the framework of the “Global Gateway”, the European Union’s purported alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. At the final press conference, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set the target of […]

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization Director General, announced Feb. 18 on the sidelines of the EU-Africa summit that a first group of six African countries has been chosen to set up mRNA vaccine production: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. In 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO set up the “global mRNA technology […]

The Schiller Institute Conference held an online conference Feb. 19 under the title “100 Seconds to Midnight on Doomsday Clock — We Need a New Security Architecture!”. The first panel discussed the mindless march to war between nuclear powers taking place over the artificially created crisis in Ukraine, while the second panel addressed the means to achieve a new paradigm […]

A featured speaker at the Feb. 19 Schiller Institute conference was Natalia Vitrenko, chairwoman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine and a long-time associate of the SI. She gave a gripping description from the inside of what has happened since the coup d’état in 2014 by extremist and fascist forces in Kiev, supported by the West, and of how […]

A number of senior Western diplomats have confirmed over the past days that the eastward expansion of NATO was in violation of promises made to the Soviet Russians in 1990 and 1991. Roland Dumas, the French Foreign Affairs Minister from 1988 to 1993, attended all the top-level 2plus4 talks at the time on the reunification of Germany and the end […]

The Schiller Institute will hold an international online conference on Saturday, February 19, at 16:00 Central European Time, to reassert the very sane declaration, “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” issued by the five nuclear powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council on Jan. 3 of this year. The conference will also present […]

The suspense has been mounting and mounting on a daily basis, like in a bad Hollywood action movie. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Tony Blinken have warned for the past week that Russia could launch an invasion of Ukraine “any day now”, even before the end of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, with British […]

Vladimir Putin’s Dec. 17 decision to negotiate directly with the United States on the issue of a new security architecture in Europe, over the heads of European leaders, was motivated in large part by the failure of France and Germany to pressure the Ukrainian government into implementing the Minsk accord. It had the positive effect of pushing the Europeans – […]

In response to the Ukraine crisis, Peter Dittus and Hervé Hannoun make a strong case for France to leave the integrated command of NATO in an op-ed published by the French “souverainist” weekly Marianne on Feb. 11. German economist Peter Dittus is the former secretary general of the Bank for International Settlements (2005-2016), while the Frenchmen Hannoun is the bank’s […]