International Women’s Day saw a rift between feminists marching in Spanish cities, as some supported the government’s legislation on gender identification, whereas others preferred a biological definition of the female sex.
Tolkien maintained a great Marian piety throughout his lifetime. Indeed, he said that his entire vision of beauty was grounded in the simplicity and magnificence of the Mother of God.
The new president arrived at Parliament accompanied by her husband and three children. Refuting the ‘codes’ of militant feminism, Novák highlighted her identity as a woman and mother as decisive assets in politics.
War in the Eurasian breadbasket is causing European countries to have to rethink food security and current agricultural policy for both the immediate and long-term futures.
Foreign minister Bisera Turkovic said that the Ukraine war “is causing fear and concern in our region that this might now be the beginning of a larger trend in Eastern Europe,” and that “the Balkans is Europe’s Achilles heel.”
The share of foreign suspects in sexual offense cases rose from over one-third to almost half of all suspects between 2000 and 2020, government figures revealed.
Interest rates in the euro zone remained low through January, the European Central Bank reported on March 3rd. Loans by commercial banks to non-financial corporations averaged an annualized rate of 1.43%, the same as in October last year and only marginally up from November (1.39%) and December (1.36%). The average interest rate on loans to […]
A series of failures in the prevention of the flood catastrophe of July 2021 cost more than 100 lives in Germany alone. Newly-revealed chats that some high-ranking politicians were more concerned about not being blamed for those failures than about saving lives.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is resurrecting other clashes over territorial sovereignty elsewhere in the world. Japan is taking advantage of the Ukrainian opportunity to make its claim to the Kuril Islands archipelago heard again, which it has disputed with Russia for more than 70 years. The Kuril Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located between […]
The problem with complacent ruling elites is that, to justify their dominance, they are forced to resuscitate old terrors and to make up new ones. They rely on phantom enemies against which they can pose as our protectors.
Days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of the International Legion of Territorial Defense, nearly 20,000 foreign ’volunteers’ are said to have signed up to fight alongside Ukrainians in their armed struggle with the Russian Federation.
A better strategy for the EU could be to clean up its own house first. The enormous amounts the EU spends on agriculture, a few hundred billion over seven years, heavily subsidize intensive agriculture, with 80% of EU cash going to 20% of the recipients.
