“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The trial opened today (30 September) in Paris in which Marine Le Pen and 24 other members of the National Rassemblement are accused, all accused of having set up a system to pay politicians and employees of the transalpine right-wing party through the illegal use of European Union funds. A process that could put Le Pen’s bid for the presidency ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sweden and Finland have sent a joint letter to the European Commission asking to strengthen the control over the respect of the rule of law, increasingly linking this condition to the possibility of receiving EU funds, including those of the Common Agricultural Policy. A move that seems to be addressed to Viktor Orban’s Hungary, the country that is increasingly in ...
The digital euro will have lower costs than traditional systems such as Visa and Mastercard, and will help financial institutions face the challenges of the future. These are the predictions of the Italian member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, Piero Cipollone. The achievement of this objective also passes through a fundamental reason according to the member ...