Brussels Diary

“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Virus of Disunion

I will not go back over the news or convince anybody to stay at home and maintain social distance of two metres. This is all important; however, I wou...


“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...