Brussels Diary

“The Brussels Diary With Yana Toom”: European Minimum Wage

It is already clear that Europe cannot take refuge from the coronavirus tsunami. This is bad news for the economy, which also means bad news for the p...


“The Brussels Diary With Yana Toom”: EU and American Elections

The US presidential election is coming closer every day and, from America’s perspective, this is the most important event on the planet. Let’s be hone...


“The Brussels Diary With Yana Toom”: Nagorno-Karabakh and Erdoğan

Sadly, there is a joke going round online that the mainstream media currently has two news items: ‘coronavirus’ and ‘this is the last thing we needed ...


"The Brussels Diary With Yana Toom": Migration Problem and Solution

Winter is coming, COVID-19 is growing stronger and the international situation is such that one does not know where to run. We have almost forgotten a...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Hate Speech and Punishment

The other day Martin Helme, our Minister of Finance and leader of the EKRE party, said on the radio that Estonia received unpleasant news. An investig...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Navalny and Nord Stream 2

The Brussels Diaries are back on the air. The EU is experiencing tough times: coronavirus, threat on the economy, Brexit, conflict between Greece and ...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Summary So Far

You are reading this season’s last edition of the Brussels Diary. We will meet again in September, and maybe I will have some good news then. Our summ...


“The Brussels Diary with Yana Toom”: Protests in US and EU

Big events start out small. In December, a Chinese person ate a bat and a pandemic broke out. George Floyd, who paid for cigarettes using a counterfei...