Canada: Liberal election victory leads country toward EU and China and away from US May 1, 2025 With 99% of the votes counted, Justin Trudeau’s successor as Liberal leader, Mark Carney, appears set to be the country’s new Prime Minister. Based…
Eurostat: 1 in 5 Europeans at risk of poverty May 1, 2025 Across the European Union, in 2024, 93.3 million people – 21.0% of the population – faced the same nightmare: poverty, severe material and social…
Ramzan Kadyrov is preparing his son-successor in Chechnya, while scenarios of a break with the Kremlin exist May 1, 2025 The hard-line Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, is notorious for his authoritarianism, on which he has based his 18-year local hegemony. The other “pillar” is…
Ports, tunnels and infrastructure in the EU are also being prepared for military use May 1, 2025 Funds of 200 billion euros are expected to be directed by 2030 to infrastructure projects in the EU, in order to meet the needs…
Housing crisis? The example of its solution is Vienna May 1, 2025 In an area, like most European capitals, where available housing is becoming scarce, tenants need something much more substantial than a yearly rent subsidy….
Trump’s final proposal to end the war in Ukraine April 24, 2025 Washington is expecting Ukraine’s response today on a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as Russian and informal acceptance of Russian sovereignty…
Zelensky: Independent Leader or Pawn of the Oligarchs and Western Elites? April 24, 2025 Volodymyr Zelensky, the current president of Ukraine, has been widely portrayed in Western media as a heroic defender of Ukrainian sovereignty. However, a closer…
Greece: Subsidies policy without a future April 24, 2025 The Greek government is trying to limit the reactions and stop its political decline, both in society and in the occasional opinion polls. And…
Uncertainty remains despite Trump’s pushback on tariffs April 24, 2025 Trump’s sudden and impressive retreat with the 90-day tariff freeze gave the markets a breather and time to more correctly assess the effects of…