Brussels Diary

“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Budget for Twenty Seven Kingdoms

Once upon a time, there was a fantasy country not of seven kingdoms, like in Game of Thrones, but of twenty-seven kingdoms. Before there were twenty-e...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: International Child Abduction in Japan

It is generally regarded that Brussels deals exclusively with global issues: the Green Deal, the EU budget, the split in NATO... However, this is not ...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Deepest Split in NATO

The Munich Security Conference has already identified not just a deep split, but the deepest split in NATO. Europe and America do not agree on almost ...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Life Belt for National Minorities

In the spring of 2018, the Russian School of Estonia and MEP Yana Toom collected signatures to support an ongoing European Citizens’ Initiative called...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Historical Half-Truth

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) has prepared a statement “On the historical memory and falsification of history”,...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Split Between EU and US

Every year, the elites convene at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and discusses “where are we going?” Global decisions are seldom made...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Green Deal and Ida-Viru County

“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom” is back. It is already evident that the new European Commission will not bore. Big changes are coming, including o...