The news comes after Queen Máxima called for the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), defending CBDCs as instruments of “inclusivity” at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington D.C. earlier this month.

The prevailing opinion among most ‘observers,’ Politico explains, is that “Russia blew up the pipelines … in an effort to further destabilize Europe’s energy supplies.

The FPÖ, the only major party in Austria to oppose sanctions against Russia, is now polling at 26% of the national vote.

Though the final, official count will not be available until later in the week, exit polls give a narrow lead to former prime minister and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Protesters have blocked roads using trucks, agricultural machinery, cranes, and burning tires, wearing green shirts stamped with the Brazilian flag evocative of support for the current president.

A realm grotesquely mimicking our own; a vale of psychic parasitism just beneath the surface. We consider the meaning of uncanny inversion in horror stories.

The Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Lauded for his “unequivocal humanitarian stance,” he warned against a “peace without justice.”

Pension and entitlement claims of Eurocrats climbed to a 122.6 billion euros at the end of 2021, a six billion increase compared to the total amount recorded at the end of 2020.

Meloni’s government has turned the page on COVID-19: as of November 1st, the obligation to wear masks in hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres will be over.

The chief inspector for the Central Police Station in the city of Valencia, Ricardo Ferris, has been fired after publicly stating that “practically all street crime is committed by illegal immigrants.”

Ukraine’s push for €500 million a month from Germany for rebuilding efforts is clashing with the reality of a German economy in rapid decline. German social democrats are considering taxing the rich to pay for reconstruction.

Locals have pulled back the curtain on the false promises of wind and solar, telling the dirty secrets of supposedly clean and green energy, and doing their best to form a democratic shield against technocrats and capitalists from Madrid to Brussels.