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,…
Austria will withdraw from the planned global migration pact of the United Nations, declared Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache (FPÖ). The decision was taken at a Council of Ministers meeting of…
The events which took place in this medium size German city in late August 2018 shook the German political landscape like few other events during recent years and brought the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel onto the brink of break up.
Many people in academia, politics and media state that Islamic civilization played a “decisive” role in establishing European cultural identity. Thus, a “debt” to Islam is supposed to exist in at least two ways.