In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, French authorities communicated extensively about the ineffectiveness of the mask. The government went so far as to suppress its distribution, sale, and use in the public arena.
For her final journey, the Queen took many hours to reach Edinburgh, using a special route of over 300 kilometres, which took her through towns and villages so that her subjects could bid her a final farewell.
Patriotism and the attachment to national products are not the only reason American giants have failed in Italy. The local offer persists, because it is genuinely superior in every way to the foreign offer, and marketing snobbery is not enough to overcome this obstacle.
The young and dynamic party of the national Right is preparing to enter a difficult phase. With no immediate national election date, it must keep the helm steady over the storm in the long term.
The Russian president denounced to his French counterpart the regular Ukrainian attacks on Zaporizhzhia, while Emmanuel Macron reportedly responded by blaming the Russian occupation for the risks to the plant.
One of the problems often identified for the Les Républicains party is the gap between the leaders, tempted by centrism, and the militant base, much more conservative.
The Iranian foreign ministry has roundly rejected Albania’s accusation that Iran is behind a cyber attack.
Almost five points now separate Meloni from her rival, Enrico Letta, with Meloni ahead.
Blessed John Paul I joins the now almost unbroken cohort of holy and blessed popes since the 19th century, after Blessed Pius IX, St Pius X, Venerable Pius XII, St John XXIII and St Paul VI.
The debate over the Order of Malta’s status as a “subject of the Holy See” is not new, but Pope Francis’ reforms have caused anxiety for those who understand what is at stake in the Order’s loss of sovereignty.
The number of troops on the ground is much lower than in the previous 2018 exercise. But the symbolic significance of this event is quite different. It is an explicit display of the Sino-Russian alliance on the international stage.
The existence of recurrent crises should not be used to justify the maintenance of a permanent state of emergency or to bypass the governing protocols of the Fifth Republic.
