Brussels Diary

“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Abolished Human Rights

The world is heading towards a complete quarantine. The UK, the US and Russia are already surrendering. The adoption of stringent restrictions in Esto...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Message From Quarantine

As you can see, I am writing my Brussels diary at home in quarantine. The EU has become the centre of coronavirus pandemic. What is even more frighten...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: European Union Vs. Coronavirus

An epidemic is almost like a war: you can blame everybody for it. On Monday, the new European Commission celebrated its first one hundred days and, in...


“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”,...