Federica Mogherini

Who’d Want to Be Federica Mogherini? And Who’d Want Her Job? EU Foreign Policy and Other Stupid Questions, Explained

What will Federica Mogherini be remembered for? Admit it, you don’t even know who she is now, let alone how her EU political eulogy will be written. The former socialist foreign minister of Italy five years ago took office as the EU’s foreign policy chief, heading up a 1bn dollar a year department, which, apart from spouting the views of the EU on international affairs, actually oversaw the management of over 100 EU ‘diplomats’ around the world.

‘With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?’, says EU Council President

European Council President called on European leaders to unite in response to Washington. Not only has Trump withdrawn America from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), existentially threatening the joint UNSC agreement, but reimposed economic sanctions against Iran, which, in turn, will be applied to European companies doing business with or in Iran.

Iran Isn’t Violating the Nuclear Agreement — America Is

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most grandiose anti-Iranian performance to date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran “lied” about its nuclear program. This isn’t the first time Netanyahu has overhyped the threat of Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program. He has been crying wolf over Iran since as far back as 1992. The […]

The Disastrous Brexit Plan You Knew Nothing About

Imagine a Britain, with no NHS (US senators have already said they hope the health service in Britain will be up for grabs in any future deal), ever decreasing job security, ever rising inequality, failing education, transport, policing and other public services. All of this is a new market to be exploited. This is where the EU/US trade deal called TTIP failed. But a post-Brexit trade deal with the US will be as Jean Blaylock from the Independent says, it’s “TTIP on steroids.”

Russian FM Lavrov has a wise analogy for EU officials moaning about Crimea

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held a meeting with Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Mogherini used her meeting to justify the EU’s sanctions levelled against Russia since 2014. She again raised the tired old issue of Crimea to justify the sanctions.
The EU’s almost pathological obsession with Crimea is not only strange but it is becoming mystifying.