Category: NEWS

Germany Struggles To Fund Green Agenda

An audit court warned on Monday that the supplementary budget for 2023 is “extremely problematic under constitutional law,” because it retroactively invokes an emergency for a budget year that is almost over.

Albanians Are the Kingpins of the UK Drug Market

Albanians Are the Kingpins of the UK Drug Market

Albanian gangs are running the UK drugs trade and in Italy “Albanian-speaking groups” are listed alongside the notorious ’Ndrangheta criminal organisation.

July 27, 2023
Surge in Illegal Immigration to Italy Through the Balkans Overwhelms Authorities

Surge in Illegal Immigration to Italy Through the Balkans Overwhelms Authorities

Italian journalists, investigating illegal immigration across the Western Balkan countries, were threatened with death by a people smuggler.

July 27, 2023
Norway Contributes €22 million to EU Military War Chest for Ukraine

Norway Contributes €22 million to EU Military War Chest for Ukraine

Despite being an EU outsider, Norway already has strong cooperation agreements with Brussels on defence.

July 27, 2023
Russia Raises Conscription Age Amid Continued Ukrainian Counteroffensive

Russia Raises Conscription Age Amid Continued Ukrainian Counteroffensive

Amid heavy fighting in Ukraine, Russia has increased the age of eligibility for military conscription which could potentially see conscripts sent to regions of Ukraine that were annexed by Russia last year.

July 27, 2023
Germany: Birth Rate Sinks to Ten-Year Low in 2022

Germany: Birth Rate Sinks to Ten-Year Low in 2022

Despite its birth rate sinking to a ten-year low, the population of Germany nevertheless climbed to 84.3 million people in 2022—more people than have ever lived in the country before—as net migration amounted to a record-setting 1.5 million people.

July 27, 2023
1,500 Tech Developers Target Apple With $1 Billion Lawsuit

1,500 Tech Developers Target Apple With $1 Billion Lawsuit

The case has been brought forward by a professor of competition policy who said Apple’s charges for developers are “excessive and only possible due to its monopoly on the distribution of apps.”

July 27, 2023
EU Raw Material Strategy in Tatters as MEPs Visit Congolese Cobalt Mines

EU Raw Material Strategy in Tatters as MEPs Visit Congolese Cobalt Mines

As mining experts declared the EU’s Raw Materials strategy effectively dead in the water, MEPs visited cobalt mining facilities in the Congo with the promise of enhanced humanitarian aid.

July 27, 2023
Former Senior Ukrainian Military Official Arrested for Bribery

Former Senior Ukrainian Military Official Arrested for Bribery

Yevhen Borisov, accused of having accepted bribes in return for exempting some would-be soldiers from mobilization, is said to have purchased real estate worth around 4 million euros at the posh Marbella resort in southern Spain.

July 26, 2023
Brussels Terror Trial: Six Convicted of Murder

Brussels Terror Trial: Six Convicted of Murder

In two separate jihadi suicide bombings, at a metro station in the EU Quarter and Brussels Airport in Zaventem, 32 people lost their lives.

Rebellion Among French Police Is Growing

Rebellion Among French Police Is Growing

The movement, which started in Marseille, is now spreading across the country. “It’s not a movement of anger but rather one of disgust,” a member of an influential police union explains.

Orbán’s Words Lead to Diplomatic Spat

Orbán’s Words Lead to Diplomatic Spat

Romania is upset about being made fun of, Slovakia protests the naming of its territories as “detached” Hungarian land.

July 26, 2023
Impeachment Inquiry Against Biden Now a Possibility

Impeachment Inquiry Against Biden Now a Possibility

Republicans believe an inquiry would lead to even more information being uncovered about the president and his son’s dubious foreign business dealings.

July 26, 2023