Jana Toom

Member of the European Parliament

“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...

13/03/2020, #Brussels Diary

Yana Toom: What can you do except call Putin?

What the EU could do about the refugee situation remains unclear in a situation where we do not talk to Bashar al-Assad or Russia. The only one left ...

06/03/2020, #Events

“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...

05/03/2020, #Brussels Diary

“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 ...

27/02/2020, #Brussels Diary

“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 ...

21/02/2020, #Brussels Diary

“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...

13/02/2020, #Brussels Diary

Yana Toom: dear colleagues, the next time you condemn the white supremacist gesture, think twice

Today in Strasbourg, I discovered that I had one and a half hours of free time, which I do not normally get here. Instead of spending my time over a c...

12/02/2020, #Events

“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”,...

06/02/2020, #Brussels Diary

“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...

31/01/2020, #Brussels Diary

“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...

23/01/2020, #Brussels Diary