The EU inflation rate rose at varying rates from March to April, from 5.4% in France and Malta to 19.1% in Estonia.
The Belgian health minister, Frank Vandenbroucke, reported that the cases identified so far were “mostly among men who have sexual contact with other men.”
Turkey vowed to block NATO accession for Sweden and Finland as soon as the two countries handed in their applications.
Finland and Sweden should consider what it means for the reputability of NATO itself, when two supposedly sound democracies must abandon all democratic procedure in order to apply for membership.
While the forecast for inflation-adjusted growth has been downgraded, predictions of inflation remain elevated. A preliminary estimate suggests that euro-zone inflation reached 7.5% in April. Despite this, inflation in the currency area “is projected at 6.1% in 2022, before falling to 2.7% in 2023.”
The Turkish government is primarily critical of how Sweden has allowed the Kurdish PKK to operate with virtual impunity.
The prime minister expressed confidence in the Swedish people’s support for the membership application, however that confidence will not be put to the test. The NATO application will neither be the subject of a vote in the Riksdag—the Swedish Parliament—nor a referendum.
A new film by Dinesh D’Souza exposes organized abuse of the mail-in ballot and early voting system in order to tip the election. However, this scenario remains hypothetical; to win the debate, D’Souza needs to address a list of weaknesses with his film.
The green-social-justice movement is about to make sure that our downslope from prosperity to industrial poverty becomes even steeper.
As interest rates rise, real-estate prices will move in the opposite direction.
In practice, the merger between mainstream Keynesian economics and welfare-state policy was exactly what drove most of Europe into its current state of stagnation.
Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets explained that “Estonia has a leading role in defending media freedom in the world.”
