On Wednesday 7 February, the Executive Director of the International Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the 2017 Nobel Prize winner, Beatrice Fihn, urged the European Union to spearhead in the abolition of these weapons throughout the world.
Ms Fihn stated, "We are capable of banning nuclear weapons. The world has its eyes trained on the EU and we are waiting for it to show leadership and that it becomes a spearhead and assumes a responsible role”. She also said that the EU was...