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How Orban supports (and influences) the European right with bank financing

How Orban supports (and influences) the European right with bank financing

Spain’s Vox party has become the latest far-right group to get a loan from a Hungarian bank to finance its political campaigns. Two journalistic investigations by the website “VSquare” and the newspaper El Pais have confirmed that the party led by Santiago Abascal received a loan from Magyar Bankholding (Mhb), an institution whose main shareholders include Lorinc Mészáros, a friend ...

Arrested for Chinese espionage: "She transmitted information on flights, cargo and passengers at the airport"

Arrested for Chinese espionage: “She transmitted information on flights, cargo and passengers at the airport”

Another case of espionage at the hands of Beijing shakes Germany. A Chinese woman, identified only as Yaqi the German defense industry. German prosecutors, who issued the arrest warrant, announced that the 38-year-old worked for a company that provided logistics services to the airport. “In the period between August 2023 and February 2024, the woman repeatedly transmitted information on flights, ...

Assange: "Journalism is not a crime. What happened to me can happen again"

Assange: “Journalism is not a crime. What happened to me can happen again”

“It’s hard not to draw a line between the U.S. government crossing the Rubicon and the current cold climate for free expression.” Washington as Julius Caesar. Just as the Roman general crossed the river, forever changing the history of what would later become an empire, so the United States has crossed that symbolic border which would establish its desire to ...

Rutte at the helm of NATO: who is the 'frugal' of "no money for Italians" and enemy of Putin

Rutte at the helm of NATO: who is the ‘frugal’ of “no money for Italians” and enemy of Putin

Mark Rutte has officially taken the reins of NATO. The handover with the outgoing Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, took place today (1 October) at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, during a meeting of the Atlantic Council, the political body that brings together the ambassadors of the member countries. The 65-year-old Stoltenberg opened the meeting and the 57-year-old ...

The AfD MP who exploits Belarusian political prisoners as cheap labor

The AfD MP who exploits Belarusian political prisoners as cheap labor

A scandal in Germany has hit the country’s far right. The deputy of the party of Alternatives for Germany he exploited Belarusian political prisoners to work on his farm. The business, opened four years ago, is located in the Belarusian district of Lida, a few steps from Minsk’s border with Lithuania and Poland. The affair Combining political activity with that ...

Far from being 'cellar Nazis': the far right is trying to come to power in Vienna between SS slogans and songs

Far from being ‘cellar Nazis’: the far right is trying to come to power in Vienna between SS slogans and songs

The historic victory in Austria of the Freedom Party, the FPO, is causing considerable concern at a national but also international level. In the recent elections, the far-right party led by Herbert Kickl gained around 2.5 percentage points ahead of current Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative People’s Party (OVP), winning around 29 percent of the vote, its best result in Always. ...

“If Russia invades us, we will not resist.” The shocking words of Orbán's political advisor

“If Russia invades us, we will not resist.” The shocking words of Orbán’s political advisor

It was irresponsible for Ukraine to defend itself militarily in the face of attack from Russia. The sender of the message is Balázs Orbán, the main advisor to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (unrelated namesake). The statements sparked a storm, suggesting that in the event of an attack by Moscow, Hungary would allow itself to be invaded without offering resistance, as ...

This is how funds to help Africa end up in the hands of human traffickers

This is how funds to help Africa end up in the hands of human traffickers

A special European Union fund was supposed to help Africa respond effectively to the migration crisis, but unfortunately the money was used (also) in violation of human rights, ending up in the hands of criminals. This is the complaint contained in the report published on September 25 by the EU Court of Auditors on the use of the Trust Fund ...

Why Europeans Are Increasingly Racist

Why Europeans Are Increasingly Racist

Europeans have an increasingly ethnic, closed and xenophobic vision of their own identity. This is the verdict from the report “Welcome to Barbieland”, published by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECF) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), which alerts the Union to a change of perspective capable of undermining the principles of inclusion and equality that are the basis ...