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The Bretton Woods System is “outdated, dysfunctional, and unfair,” the UN Secretary-General said at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Could this be the moment for CBDCs?

The Bretton Woods System is “outdated, dysfunctional, and unfair,” the UN Secretary-General said at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Could this be the moment for CBDCs?

AI dominated this year’s Bilderberg meeting as elites pondered managing a potential schism with China.

Due to the use of trenches and the ferocious fighting which exacted a heavy toll on both sides, the battle of Bakhmut has drawn comparisons with WWI’s battle of Verdun.

Despite the restrictions imposed on traditional liturgy by the Vatican, attendance has never been so high, forcing the organisers to close the registrations.

New Democracy’s victory is the first time in 40 years that a ruling party in Greece has increased its share of the vote in a parliamentary election.

Russia went on a retaliatory spree, announcing entry bans for U.S. officials and opening criminal cases against ICC officials, while forcing Greenpeace into shuttering its Russian branch.

With the U.S. president’s approval, fellow NATO allies can also begin the process of delivering F-16s to Ukraine later this year.

The letter refers to the unprecedented danger that the massive deployment of wind and photovoltaic industrial estates pose for biodiversity.

The Sarkozy affair gives an extremely degraded image of French justice, but also of French political life.

Commission auditors warned against a public bailout for Parliament’s pension fund and expressed concern that financial ties to arms manufacturers could tarnish the EU’s image.
Given the concern over foreign interference in democratic processes the European Union has been expressing of late, Spain’s VOX has asked whether the Commission is investigating George Soros.
To Chris Janssens of Vlaams Belang, the disinformation campaign targets “right-wing opinions” for fact-checking, while “left-wing opinions would be given free rein.”
The four parties of the governing coalition explained that they had not taken over a “laid table” but rather a pile of problems that will take a long time to solve.
Putin accused the West of “stoking of war in Ukraine,” destabilising the global food and energy markets, destroying pan-European gas pipelines, and ignoring Russia’s security concerns through NATO expansion.
The German parliament passed an amendment that may put people who deny any genocide or war crime, regardless of time or place, behind bars for up to 3 years.
Member states have been deeply divided on the best way to handle the energy crisis, and the meeting kept all options on the table, with Germany finally giving in to the possibility of price caps.
A former member of Ecuador’s National Assembly noted that “it seems to be an attack against the values of the great majority of Ecuadorians, and that the U.S. is practicing a ‘diplomacy of gender ideology.’”
Inflation is of major concern, according to the ECB.
The diplomatic incident is a perfect microcosm of the growing unease European nations feel over China’s considerable investments in their ports and other critical infrastructure.
The judgement handed down by the disciplinary chamber is evidence of a significant evolution in the official bodies regulating medicine in France.
Climate activist Luisa Neubauer promoted her new book by claiming that she didn’t feel safe at the Frankfurt book fair in the presence of right-wing publishers. An invitation by Junge Freiheit to participate in a discussion was, however, left unanswered.
Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki said in an interview that Germans, who want Russia to be held accountable for its crimes in Ukraine, should take responsibility and support Polish claims for reparations from Germany.