Prime Minister Jüri Ratas acknowledged that the Estonian government is now in crisis because there is a lack of unity among its member parties about the Pact. Justice Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Pro Patria) opposes the…
According to the CTK news agency, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced today (14.11.2018) that the Czech Republic will not sign the UN Global Migration Pact. But the situation as related to the Pact is much…
“Bulgaria has not taken a decision on joining the UN Pact on Migration and this cannot be done without discussion in parliament”, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva. The complaint that this Pact, which will potentially have huge effects…
In Estonia, Reform Party MP Marko Mihkelson complained that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) has received no information about the procedure of the pact since a meeting in mid-March. At that meeting Minister of…
Beginning of the 19th century, during the “Finnish War” (1808-1809) between Sweden and Russia, Russia annexed Finland which became an autonomous “Grand Duchy” with the Russian Emperor as its ruler.
The “knowledge transfer” debt is supposed to exist because, between the 8th and 10th centuries, a large number of classical Greek writings were translated into Arabic and were “preserved” this way. Later these were translated from Arabic into Latin.
Around 1000 A.D. Scandinavia saw momentous changes: the previously Viking-ruled areas organized themselves into kingdoms—Denmark, Norway and Sweden—and embraced Roman Catholic Christianity as religion.
Across the Gulf of Bothnia, Finland stayed behind in these developments …
A late discussion of this Pact started in Germany. Many people in Germany are under the impression that the German Government was trying to hide the issue from the German populace until the Pact is…
Europe pulled itself out of its “Dark Ages”, by its own effort. A number of “renaissances” during the Middle Ages were important mile stones in this development.
In addition to the USA, Hungary, Australia, and since 31 October also Austria, other countries are also considering not to sign the Pact. On 1 November, just one day after Austria decided rejecting the Pact,…