On July 4, 2012, scientists packed a large hall at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, to hear the results of two experiments to find the Higgs boson, a particle so important in the realm of physics that it had been nicknamed “the God particle.” The detection of that elusive fundamental…
Chronicle by Isaac Hammouch June 12, 2026, will not just be a date in the archives of the European Union; it will be the symbol of a historic renunciation. With the entry into force of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum, Europe has not merely reformed its laws; it has changed its face. This…
Membership of the European single market was at stake when the UK voted on Brexit, but it was not the decisive question in the campaign. The leave campaign dishonestly promised a cost-free severance of ties with Britain’s largest trading partner. As immigration came to dominate the debate, the requirement to allow free movement of people…
The working visit to Rabat by the Belgian Minister of Justice, Annelies Verlinden, comes at a time marked by the desire of the Belgian authorities to strengthen their cooperation with Morocco on several sensitive issues, particularly those related to irregular migration, the identification of Moroccan nationals in an illegal situation, and the execution of return…
‘We are living through a moment of hellish, mindless destruction,” Caragh Thuring tells me, shortly after offering me a cup of tea and a chocolate chip biscuit. We are sitting in the artist’s east London studio, surrounded by paintings, magazine cuttings and cryptic handwritten notes (“AWARENESS, TESTING”). There are metal racks littered with crumpled tubes…
The Brussels Correctional Court approved, on June 8, 2026, a criminal settlement amounting to 175.2 million euros concluded between the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), its subsidiary Banque Chaabi du Maroc, and several of its executives. This decision puts an end to one of the most significant financial proceedings involving a…
Starting from June 2026, the European Union enters a new phase of its migration policy. After years of negotiations, the European Pact on Migration and Asylum becomes fully applicable. This is not a single law, but a set of texts that reorganize the way member states register migrants, examine asylum applications, control borders, allocate responsibilities,…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Venice Biennale will breach EU sanctions if it includes Russia’s national pavilion, Brussels has warned Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government, as a row over Moscow’s participation escalates ahead of the cultural gala’s…
On a perfect spring day in Paris, the deer is first visible in the distance, poised between an avenue of just-budding plane trees in the 7th arrondissement. Its head is raised, its body poised. Seen there among the trees, it really could be a wild animal. In reality, it is a concrete deer, and not…
Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale in protest at the presence of the Russian pavilion at the event. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Ministry of Culture announced in a note: “Minister Alessandro Giuli will not travel to Venice on the pre-opening days of the 61st Venice Biennale Art…
