
Six Nights of Riots: The Human and Material Costs
In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.

In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.

Both sides say the other wants to engineer a nuclear disaster at Zaporizhzhia as Ukrainian forces look to recapture the power plant as part of their counteroffensive.

The Ukrainian advocacy group B4Ukraine revealed Western companies’ underlying hypocrisy, with some continuing to make billions even after pledging to leave—while most don’t even intend to—“further enabling Russia’s war of aggression.”

Due to the urgency of the national situation, Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel a long-awaited trip to Berlin. Once more, France’s diplomatic policy is affected by social unrest.

Despite the name, the new international body will not be able to prosecute the crime of aggression but is viewed as the first step toward creating another, Nuremberg-like war tribunal to put the entire Kremlin on the stand.

Spain’s EU Council Presidency was officially launched in Madrid, where both PM Sánchez and Commission President von der Leyen said they’d push through the Migration Pact regardless of Central European objections.

Advanced notice was able to nip violence in the bud in Brussels, but the rioting, inspired by events in France, has also spread to Switzerland and French Guiana.

Despite ample media publicity, Italy’s bungling new left-wing opposition leader Elly Schlein is making matters worse for the centre-left PD as party insiders fear their own Jeremy Corbyn moment and loss of working-class voters to the Right.

Spain’s president appears to be paying for his personal political travel expenses with taxpayer money.

Following the stunt, Sweden’s embassy in Iraq was stormed by a mob of protesters; governments of Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, and the UAE recalled their ambassadors from Stockholm; and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (ICO) called for Quran burning to be banned globally.
With the wiretapping scandal dealt with for now, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis can turn his attention to securing Greece’s national defense interests.
With remarkable candor, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen stated that Danish defense forces are not up to the task, and that calling up women would be “beneficial.”
The spin operation was uncovered when it was revealed that an intermediary PR firm being paid by the Azeri government had coaxed an Australian academic to sign his name to a misleading piece about the blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
The Turkish government called in the Danish ambassador to Ankara to discuss Mr. Paludan’s actions.
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt called for “an appropriate response from the governments of these two countries” which it accused of “protecting barbaric crimes under the inhuman and immoral banner they call ‘freedom of expression.’”
Industry experts explain that the problem of medicine shortages stems from engrained practices, some of which are easier to change than others.
Diplomatic relations reach a new low, as Estonia sits on the frontline of confrontation with Russia.
With talk circulating about a right-wing political coalition, the pros and cons of such an alliance are more complex.
The German chancellor was in Paris on Sunday, January 22nd, to try to reinvigorate a pair that is supposed to be the driving force of the European Union, but whose disagreements have been particularly significant in recent months.
“Those who do not have the right to reside in the European Union must be sent back to their country of origin,” EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told members of the press, marking a sharp shift in her tone on the issue compared to years past.
Riksdag member Anna Starbrink’s pledge to vote against a national panhandling law, at any stage of the legislative process, reduces the coalition majority from 176-173 to 175-174.
For the Italian government, the Trieste conference represents a concerted effort to improve Italy’s credibility with respect to its role in European regional geopolitical issues.