Author: Christine Schier

Under the von der Leyen presidency, the European Commission has launched a hostile policy against China, first calling it a “systemic rival” in March 2019, then launching the so-called “Global Gateway” project as an anti-Belt and Road initiative in September 2021, then finally initiating a “de-risking” policy (another name for “decoupling”) in March 2023. In addition to the fact that […]

Once again, cost-cutting bureaucrats and ecologists have joined forces in Germany to sabotage crucial infrastructure projects. The German government, relying on the opinions of “experts” who have no clue about the requirements of rapid and efficient rail freight operations, has now rejected the plan to build a 118 km long tunnel system along the Rhine, between Bonn and Wiesbaden, which […]

The fire that devastated the island of Maui, one of the archipelago chain of Pacific islands that make up the state of Hawaii, is the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century. Environmentalists are demanding that President Biden immediately declare an unprecedented Climate Emergency, with sweeping powers. But the climate is far less a factor in this catastrophe than the […]

The Schiller Institute will hold an international online conference on September 9, beginning 15.00 CET, on the theme: Let us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History! Please register for the conference at https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20230909. Simultaneous translation in French, German and Spanish will be available on Zoom for those who register.

On Saturday, Sept. 9 — the opening day of the G20 summit in India, shortly after the BRICS summit in South Africa, and amidst the growing danger of a new world war — the Schiller Institute, with the support of E.I.R., will hold an international online conference titled “Let Us Join Hands with the Global Majority to Create a New […]

The BRICS summit in Johannesburg, from Aug. 22 to 24, will be much more important than anyone would have guessed one year ago. In the meantime, given their growing economic clout, 23 countries have officially applied for membership in the group. And the South African government has invited the leaders of 67 other countries, including all those in Africa, to […]

In view of the upcoming BRICS summit on Aug. 22-24, EIR and the Schiller Institute issued recommendations which have been picked up by one of the most important figures in the ongoing “de-dollarization” debate among the BRICS, minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission Sergei Glazyev. The EIR paper, drafted by Dennis Small and Mary Jane Freeman, was published in the […]

Since the publication of a petition by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer on Feb. 10, calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace diplomacy, which was signed by several hundred thousand people, and the mass rally in Berlin on Feb. 25, expectations were high that it would give a boost to the formation of a new political party (cf. SAS […]

Despite the EU’s much trumpeted deal with Tunisia of July 16, the flow of irregular migrants over the Mediterranean Sea has not stopped. In the ensuing weeks, an average of 1,000 migrants per day reached Italian shores. In the first six months of this year, ca. 90,000 irregular migrants have reached Italy, twice as many as last year. The mass-migration […]

Sebastien Périmony, the head of the Schiller Institute’s Africa desk, has posted an 18-minute video reporting on the July 27-28 Russia-African summit in Saint Petersburg, which he attended. Remarkably, the SI was the only Western organization invited to take part in this event, which Périmony explains by the Institute’s constant combat since 1984 “for world peace, mutual development and dialogue […]