It is a significant victory for Mortier and for those who have long warned of the slippery slope of euthanasia.

Within Spain’s judicial-political controversy, the Partido Popular proposed a legislative change to court-appointment procedures. The PSOE rejected it, as it would mean political suicide.

Habeck warned that Germany is looking at an “extremely tense” situation in the coming months, saying that if Germans fail to reduce their gas consumption, we risk “not having enough gas this winter.”

I would go so far as to argue that unadulterated liberalism corrodes democracy, and true democracy is opposed to liberalism. Illiberal democracy is capable of integrating what is valuable in liberalism without allowing the liberal framework to take over.

The desire of boys to carry pocketknives, it seems to me, is one that should be nurtured. A pocketknife makes one more useful to others, and being at the service of others is what turns a boy into a man.

This comes in addition to the €130 million Sanchez has already earmarked for the Global Fund, of which Bill Gates is a key partner. 

The informal meeting, planned for October 7th in Prague, follows on the heels of an agreement between energy ministers for mandatory windfall taxes on energy companies. 

It has now been suggested that if France remains steadfast in opposing the MidCat project, one may be built through Italy instead.

The German Retail Trade Federation warned the federal government that as many as 16,000 business could go bankrupt this year in the face of runaway energy prices.

The highest current unemployment rates in the EU are found in Spain (12.4%) and Greece (12.2%); among the lowest are Hungary (3.5%) and the Netherlands (3.8%).

None of the parties catering to Latvia’s ethnic Russian minority, which makes up more than 25% of the country’s 1.9 million population, managed to secure a seat.