By Feyyaz Erkin Eşli The European Union has scheduled a summit for 18 December 2025 at which member states are expected to decide whether frozen Russian sovereign assets — Russian sovereign assets immobilized by EU sanctions since 2022 — should be used to finance additional military assistance for Ukraine. This development once again places Donald Trump’s emerging peace initiatives at ...
By Dr. Fernando Esteche On December 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice executed a seizure warrant against the vessel “Skipper” in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The indictment was based on previous 2022 sanctions against the vessel (when it sailed under the name “Adisa”) for its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network that allegedly financed Iran’s ...
The Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa’s visit fueled a lot of debates both within the country as well as internationally. Ramazan Bursa is a distinguished expert to describes the outcomes and limitations. He has travelled to Syria after former President Assad’s fall and maintains good contacts into the new government in Damascus. Here’s how he evaluates Al-Sharaa’s visit. The Syrian ...
On October 15, European Union energy ministers reached a draft agreement to ban Russian energy imports as of January 1, 2028. For the draft to take effect, it still needs approval from the European Parliament, with the process expected to be completed by the end of the year. Under the proposal, gas imports will only be permitted if companies can ...
On 24 September 2025, Türkiye and the US concluded a contract for the supply of LNG for a period of 20 years, with a volume of approximately 70 billion cubic meters. The next day, on September 25, a meeting between Erdoğan and Trump took place at the White House. Trump urged Türkiye to abandon purchases of Russian oil, pointing out ...
By Yunus Soner Following presidential elections of July 28, the domestic political situation in Venezuela is becoming calmer and calmer day by day. In contrast to that, external pressure on the reelected President Nicolas Maduro, specifically from the United States and the European Union, is mounting. The Venezuelan Supreme Court confirmed the elections results declared by the National Electoral Council ...
By Yunus Soner, Caracas / Venezuela Oil, Bolivarian socialism, sanctions, hyperinflation … These are the keywords that have been reflected in the Turkish press from Venezuela in recent years. The country’s economy has really taken off in recent years. In the recent presidential elections, the economy was one of the most important items on the agenda. Fernando Bastidas is a ...
In recent years, besides Syria, Venezuela has been one of the countries living through mass migration. Thousands have left the country towards the neighboring countries, as well as to the United States. Now, they are returning. The government implanted the “Plan of Return to Homeland”, by which those Venezuelans abroad, who have no own economic transfer, are brought back by ...
We bring to your attention the article by Russian economist Sergey Glazyev, in which he examines the Russian economy’s struggle against Western sanctions. Glazyev’s article was first published in Russian in the magazine “Zavtra”. The title and subtitles in the English translation were put by UWI. Russia has restored dignity to its military, military-industrial complex and foreign policy. This hat-trick ...
By Dure Akram, Lahore, Pakistan “In Friendship” between Pakistan and Iran, “We Trust”, billboards celebrated in Urdu and Persian dotting not just the federal capital Islamabad but also Lahore and Karachi this week, as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif brought out an unexpected ace out of his foreign policy deck. There may not have been much to read into such ...