Category: NEWS

Le Pen Tops Macron in Recent Poll 

The conservative party leader is quickly shedding the negative branding of the mainstream media, as 43% of French people say they’d consider voting for her.

EU Commissioner’s Job Hunt Is Risk-Free

Margrethe Vestager’s colleagues have been saddled with her duties at the Commission while she pursues the top spot at the European Investment Bank.

U.S. Intelligence Leaked Through Gamer Chats

U.S. Intelligence Leaked Through Gamer Chats

The documents had been floating around on messaging channels popular with gamers for several weeks, or even months, before making it to Telegram and catching the attention of the media.

April 11, 2023
Orbán Among Leaders Monitored by CIA in Intelligence Leak

Orbán Among Leaders Monitored by CIA in Intelligence Leak

Orbán aired his belief that the U.S. represented a significant threat to Hungarian interests in intelligence obtained by the CIA.

April 11, 2023
Europe Responds to Pentagon Data Leak

Europe Responds to Pentagon Data Leak

Reporters have described the affair as “America’s most serious intelligence leak in a decade.”

April 11, 2023
Greece Set To Ban Nationalists From Elections

Greece Set To Ban Nationalists From Elections

The ultra-Right National Party is regarded as the heir to the banned Golden Dawn party and will be blocked from advancing to May elections. The decision is likely to help moderate nationalists.

April 11, 2023
Tunisia Considering Joining BRICS, Spokesman Says

Tunisia Considering Joining BRICS, Spokesman Says

Tunisia’s accession into the bloc would provide the country with massive economic benefits, which in turn would improve the country’s social conditions.

April 11, 2023
Ireland: EU Veto Sends Housing Plans into Disarray

Ireland: EU Veto Sends Housing Plans into Disarray

Brussels counters Ireland’s plans to regulate Airbnb as lacking evidence, as the Irish government faces challenges from the Left and a rising populist sentiment against asylum seekers.

April 11, 2023
Rescue Underway After Easter Marked by Migrant Crossings

Rescue Underway After Easter Marked by Migrant Crossings

The Monday rescue followed three others over the Easter weekend, which saw the deaths of at least 50 migrants, and the arrival—on the Italian island of Lampedusa—of 26 boats carrying 974 migrants on Easter Sunday.

April 11, 2023
Swiss Pharmaceutical Exports to Russia at Record High

Swiss Pharmaceutical Exports to Russia at Record High

Pharmaceuticals are considered humanitarian goods and therefore are exempt from sanctions.

April 11, 2023
EU Countries Investigate ChatGPT

EU Countries Investigate ChatGPT

Even Microsoft, OpenAI’s main investor, admitted it does not “have access to the full details of [ChatGPT’s] vast training data.”

Poland Temporarily Halts All Imports of Ukrainian Grain

Poland Temporarily Halts All Imports of Ukrainian Grain

Like Polish farmers, those in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia have also been disproportionately hard-hit by an influx of cheap Ukrainian grain.

April 11, 2023
Vučić: Kosovo Will Still Be Part of Serbia Until End of My Term

Vučić: Kosovo Will Still Be Part of Serbia Until End of My Term

The Serbian President said Kosovo Serbs would not vote in the upcoming elections, since Pristina declined to form a Community of Serbian municipalities.

April 11, 2023
Saudi Crown Prince No Longer Interested in “Pleasing” the U.S.

Saudi Crown Prince No Longer Interested in “Pleasing” the U.S.

The apparent deterioration in US-Saudi relations comes amid a recent worldwide trend toward de-dollarization with key, ascendent geopolitical actors, including but not limited to China, Russia, India, and Brazil all taking steps to reduce their use of the U.S. dollar.

April 10, 2023