Cav's Place

It was good news that the European Citizens’ Initiative demanding the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement recently gained the required number of signatures, but this is usually a long process and the results are uncertain, yet now the chances of things actually moving in that direction more rapidly may just increase a whole […]

Back in December, when the European Parliament voted in favor of the My Voice, My Choice European Citizens’ Initiative, I was saying that it was little more than a declaration of intent, and a particularly unambitious one at that, since it’s the approval of the European Commission that’s actually needed. And that didn’t exactly seem […]

A year ago, I was saying that things were looking grim, for Ukraine and not only. And this winter in particular was definitely grim over there, with Russia destroying the energy infrastructure and using the weather to try to freeze Ukraine into submission. But, just like their previous attempts, this one also failed, and winter […]

Among this year’s slew of attacks on contraception, abortion and women’s rights, and now even China turning around from their previous policies even more and adopting more of a “stick” approach to increase natality that may well only lead to more STDs instead, the fact that the European Parliament voted in favor of the My […]

I was quite relieved to see that Donald Trump wasn’t rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for, basically, being antithesis to what the prize should represent, declaring war on humanity and the entire planet, cultivating ties with the warmongering strongman leaders of the world, and emboldening aggressors only to then make a publicity stunt out […]