Mark Nayler

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Language barrier

1 week ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

This week, the EU's General Affairs Council (GAC) rejected Spain's request to have Catalan, Basque and Galician recognised as the bloc's 25th, 26th and 27th languages. It's a setback for Pedro Sánchez's minority coalition, which is propped up by Catalan and Basque separatists; but the secessionists would be unreasonable to use it as grounds to withdraw their parliamentary support.
Poster boy | Sur in English

2 weeks ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

On Monday morning, a 253-square-metre poster was plastered onto scaffolding on a building opposite the Spanish parliament in Madrid. It featured an image of Pedro Sánchez, tweaked to make the Socialist leader look like mafia boss Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather, next to the word 'Corrupt'. The banner referenced several corruption investigations, including the one involving Sánchez's wife over which he threatened to resign last April.
Successful European conservation policy pits farmer against predator

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mark Nayler

In early 2022, as the pandemic slowly receded, the journalist and travel writer Adam Weymouth arrived in southern Slovenia to follow in the tracks of a wolf. After leaving his territory one night in late 2011, aged nineteen months, this wolf had walked alone for 100 days, covering 2,000 kilometres on a route across Slovenia, west into Austria and southwest into the Italian Alps.
Dear Ursula | Sur in English

3 weeks ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

Representatives of victims of the floods that devastated parts of Valencia last October travelled to Brussels this week for a meeting with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. For reasons unknown, their request to meet the EU leader when she was in Valencia for a European People's Party Congress at the end of April was denied. Instead, the delegates had to wait two more weeks - and pay their own fares to the Belgian capital - to present an explosive three-page letter to Von der Leyen.
The problem with Pascal’s wager

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Mark Nayler

Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World Hodder, pp.448, 25 Blaise Pascal resists definition. During a short life (he died in 1662, aged 39) he invented the calculator, laid the foundations for probability theory and created the first public transport system. He was also an austere Catholic, whose call for a return to strict Augustinian doctrines put him outside the religious mainstream.
The problem with Pascal’s wager

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Mark Nayler

How do you make assisted suicide safe? In recent months, a large part of Kim Leadbeater’s answer has been to point to the involvement of psychiatrists. Having a psychiatrist sign off each death, Leadbeater said, would ‘add expertise’. They would be part of a much-touted ‘multidisciplinary’ approach. In particular, they would be able to check
Russian Treasure

3 weeks ago | gold-eagle.com | Mark Nayler

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, $300 billion of Russian assets held in foreign countries were immediately frozen, the majority of which (about $200 billion) are within Europe. So far, despite pressure from the US, EU leaders have been reluctant to channel these funds into Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction, the latter of which is expected to cost $520 billion.
Russian Treasure

3 weeks ago | fee.org | Mark Nayler

What to do with billions in frozen assets. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, $300 billion of Russian assets held in foreign countries were immediately frozen, the majority of which (about $200 billion) are within Europe. So far, despite pressure from the US, EU leaders have been reluctant to channel these funds into Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction, the latter of which is expected to cost $520 billion.
The nuclear option | Sur in English

4 weeks ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

On the day of writing (Thursday), Spain's congress is voting on whether to extend its phaseout of nuclear power beyond the provisional deadline of 2035. The result will be non-binding - but if it's in favour of extension, the pressure will increase on Pedro Sánchez, who has already been urged by industry leaders to reconsider the phaseout.
European Leaders Talk of EU Army

1 month ago | theepochtimes.com | Mark Nayler

CommentaryEurope is once again talking about forming its own defense alliance. The idea of a European army—discussed on and off since the early days of the Cold War—was revived in February by Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president claims that Donald Trump’s retraction of military support for Ukraine and ambivalence towards the EU shows that the bloc urgently needs its own military unit.