North Korea has just lost a major ally. On Saturday, China stopped all coal imports from North Korea. Beijing took this decision within the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions related to North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The ban will last until the end of the...

On January 23rd of this year, the EU Commission issued the ‘Commission Initiative Roadmap’ for 2018 regarding the reinforced fight against the financing of terrorism. These measures happen to be in fact restriction on payments made in cash. In other words, the Initiative is not so much about...

Recently, British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Turkey. Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo has had his first international visit to Ankara, which resulted in an apparently fruitful conversation on security and trade relations between Turkey and the United States. This development is important...

Purpose of the negotiations is to modernize a FTA agreement concluded between the EU and Mexico in 2000. Over the years, volume of European trade with Mexico has increased three-fold. The European Union and Mexico are accelerating negotiations on a new free trade zone agreement as new US president...

The ban on Middle Eastern travellers and cabin crews throws the airline industry in a unprepared state. Seven “Middle eastern countries” have been banned in the U.S. for travel, whereby taking the “airline industry unprepared” as the “flight crews from those states” are also denied an entry in the...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has resigned from his post as head of the German Foreign Ministry. Sigmar Gabriel, former Economy Minister and vice-chancellor of Germany was appointed his successor. Steinmeier has headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany for seven years. He left the post in...

Having received widespread attention in the wake of a dispute between President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto over plans to construct a border wall between the two countries, White House press secretary Sean Spicer clarified earlier remarks he made on Thursday about the...

NATO is the top agenda in Trump and May’s meet. The U.S. President Trump and the Prime Minister of Britain Theresa May are scheduled to meet today on the 27th of January 2017 for arriving at an “unity on NATO, Russia and trade”.   It is going to be the first meet of Trump with a “foreign...

By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish, says joint study of the World Economic Forum, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and consulting firm McKinsey. The new joint report has been submitted in Davos last week, and represents a plan of action to address the problem of plastics...