Cannes, 1 March 2022
by Mark Porter
Russia’s star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been sacked by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and also dropped by his management over...
How treacherous was/is Gerhard Schröder?
by Edward Steen, Vienna 24/02/22
Gerhard Schröder, 77, the former German Chancellor, chairman of the Russian energy giant since 2017, has...
by Edward Steen, Vienna 23, 2022
The UN Security Council met today and discussed Russia's aggression in eastern Ukraine and recognition of two so-called "people's...
Vienna, February 14, 2022
by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen
Germany and its new Chancellor Olof Schulz are proving the main blockage to any serious Western response to...
David Sassoli, a “sincere democrat and a good man”
Brussels/ Vienna, January 11, 2022.
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was one...
Kazakh débacle gets ever murkier - conversations in Vienna
By Edward Steen. Vienna, January 20, 2022.
Vienna has long been a charming and normally safe place...
Vienna, November 27, 2021
by Otmar Lahodynsky, honorary AEJ President
The stroke of a pen in a snow-bound forest in Belorussia changed the world
On December 8,...
(es) Vienna/ Beirut
updated November 21, 2021
The Daily Star, one of the oldest English-language newspapers in the Middle East, has abruptly closed - leaving its...