The Week

by Edward Steen. Vienna, March 5, 2022 The latest issue of the specialist magazine World Oil explains some of the more tangled aspects of Russian...

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...

Cannes, 22 February 2022 Mark Porter The headline is a Polish saying, and events are moving fast in a way that seems to be proving it...

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...