Category: NEWS

No National Veto for EU Commando Deployments 

No National Veto for EU Commando Deployments 

Current deployments of EU Battlegroups require unanimous support among member states with the 5,000-man response force operational before 2025.

April 23, 2023
Italy’s Rightist Government Proposes Heavy Fines For Monument and Art Vandalism 

Italy’s Rightist Government Proposes Heavy Fines For Monument and Art Vandalism 

The proposed legislation comes in response to numerous acts of vandalism by far-left, ‘eco-activists’ on Italy’s cultural sites.

April 22, 2023
British Deputy Prime Minister Resigns over ‘Bullying’ Allegations

British Deputy Prime Minister Resigns over ‘Bullying’ Allegations

While he accepted the inquiry’s “flawed” findings, Dominic Raab believes that it “set a dangerous precedent” by “setting the threshold for bullying so low.”

April 22, 2023
Italy Offers To Leave Belt and Road Initiative for Taiwan Chip Deal

Italy Offers To Leave Belt and Road Initiative for Taiwan Chip Deal

Italy is expected to eventually decouple from China regardless, with the Italian auto-industry slashing production in the face of a global semiconductor shortage.

April 22, 2023
Body of Spain’s Falange Founder To Be Exhumed

Body of Spain’s Falange Founder To Be Exhumed

A controversial figure, Primo de Rivera earned the admiration of prominent people on the Left, including his friend, the poet Lorca and anarchist leader Durruti.

India To Overtake China as World’s Most Populous Country

India To Overtake China as World’s Most Populous Country

China insists that its “population dividend has not disappeared” because this depends on “quality” as well as quantity.

April 22, 2023
EU To Encourage Its Own Chip Production

EU To Encourage Its Own Chip Production

According to von der Leyen, the deal “will power a clean tech industry made in Europe and strengthen our digital resilience and sovereignty.”

April 21, 2023
EU To Speed Up Labor Migration to Europe

EU To Speed Up Labor Migration to Europe

The EU “needs to attract new low and medium skilled third-country national workers … who cannot find legal ways to reach Europe,” the statement to the legislation argues for establishing a common, simplified residence permit system.

April 21, 2023
Germany: Union Strikes Cripple Rail Network and Airports

Germany: Union Strikes Cripple Rail Network and Airports

The strikes brought Germany’s entire rail network to a standstill and resulted in more than 90,000 passengers being affected by flight cancellations.

April 21, 2023
Morocco To Receive €624 Million in Green Aid Despite Qatargate Links

Morocco To Receive €624 Million in Green Aid Despite Qatargate Links

The aid deal comes despite established links between Moroccan intelligence services and the Qatargate scandal, with the ringleader of the bribery network, Antonio Panzeri, a known ally of Morocco.

April 21, 2023
Russia City Bombed by “Abnormal” Russian Air Strike

Russia City Bombed by “Abnormal” Russian Air Strike

There is no other justification for this untimely strike than an “abnormal descent of aviation ammunition,” according to the Russian Defence Minister.

April 21, 2023
Italian Minister Warns of “Ethnic Replacement”

Italian Minister Warns of “Ethnic Replacement”

“We can’t give in to the idea of ethnic replacement: the Italians are having fewer children and we’re replacing them with someone else. That is not the way,” Francesco Lollobrigida, Italy’s Agriculture Minister said.

April 21, 2023