Code name for the battle of Normandy, the operation was launched by the Allies against Nazi Germany and led to the successful liberation of occupied Western Europe and to the end of the second World War in Europe one year after. On “D-day,” 6,939 vessels were engaged to support the operation and 156,177 soldiers landed on the five now famous beaches of Normandy: Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold and Sword Beach.
On 9th of May 1950, Robert Schuman proposed to place French and Western Germany’s production of coal and steel under a single authority that later became the European Coal and Steel Community. It was the first step of a gradually increasing integration process among European countries that led later to the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 creating the European economic community. Later, by the treaties of Lisbon and Maastricht, the integration led to today’s European Union.
This year 2024, on June 9, hundreds of millions of EU citizens like both of us will cast their vote and elect their European members of Parliament for five years. These elections will be the 10th elections of a European Parliament, comprised of 720 Parliamentarians from all 27 member-states. And they will be more contentious than ever before because of the rise of right-wing and populist parties in polls.
Designed to ensure peace in Europe, the EU now has to adapt to increasingly challenging threats stemming from the illegal and brutal aggression of Russia against Ukraine since 24th of February 2022. The nature and extension of mass atrocities that are perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian military show that the preservation of our common values and liberal democracies is very much at stake in this conflict.
Everyone’s waiting with bated breath, as if waiting for the next episode of an edge-of-your-seat Netflix drama – how would President Marcos handle the ghost employee scandal that has rocked the Bangko... The Philippine military said that Chinese boats illegally"seized" food and medicine airdropped to a Filipino outpost in the South China Sea.China’s defense minister warned yesterday of “limits” to Beijing’s restraint on the South China Sea and over the deployment of ballistic missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.The United States congratulated the Philippines for “eloquently laying out the Philippines’ position on the South China Sea.
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