Tag: European

The Rot Within: The crash of British European Airways flight 706

The fiery crash of the four-engine Vickers Vanguard in a field outside the Belgian town of Aarsele killed 63 people and left investigators with a monstrous mechanical puzzle. Something had ripped apart the Vanguard’s tail section in flight, leaving debris scattered for miles downwind of the cr...

Why I???m Bullish on European Market Access (Part 1 of 4)

There has been much discussion in market access circles over the last couple of years about the Inflation Reduction Act and its impact on US market access. Less attention has been paid to the JCA — Joint Clinical Assessment — coming to Europe. Next week, as many of us in the ac...

The Problem with White People

The problem with any conversation about white people is that no such thing exists. White people are an abstract concept describing people who do not otherwise have a racial identity. If you have a racial identity, or an ethnicity or a cultural identity; you are not a white person. Racia...

You Are Not Allowed To Be A Friendly Black Man

Some people seem to be up in arms about my “Georgia Is Full Of Racists” story the other day. Why, because in the past three visits to Georgia, Black people have been sh*tty for me being with my European wife? Just like a white supremacist, they find ways to justify their hate. This is...

Visualising European parties’ donations and contributions

Donations and contributions are essential parts of political parties’ private funding. In the absence of initiatives by the Authority for European Political Parties to provide European citizens with properly visible financial information on their European parties, European Democracy Consulting...

During which conflict did the European technological overtaking of the Islamic world become evident?

In the great battle of Mohacs, the Turks lost more than 10,000 men and most of their artillery, compared with only 600 casualties in the Christian ranks. The subsequent battle of Zenta, turned out to be a total disaster for the Turks. Over 25,000 fell to the tune of 400 dead Christians. All this des...

7 key challenges facing the European Union

The EU came into being during the post Second World War development of the liberal international order and, therefore, its interests and identity are inseparable from the emergence of this order. Thus, a crisis of the LIO is perceived as a crisis of the EU, affecting its international role and ident...