Before ratifying Sweden’s NATO bid, Erdoğan wants to see “concrete steps” first. For Sweden, that means coming down hard on Kurdish groups Turkey deems terrorist in nature, as well as extraditing persons wanted by Ankara.
The new British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is reportedly planning to amend the Equality Act 2010, which governs transgender issues
Since car manufacturers currently end up paying a carbon tax on combustion engines, the EU argues that electric cars will become cheaper than combustion engine cars, as electric vehicles aren’t subject to such a penalty.
Charles Michel is growing increasingly impatient with Ursula von der Leyen’s failure to come up with measures to blunt the pain of high energy costs inflicted on EU citizens and companies.
Meloni came to the European capital with peaceful intentions and moderate rhetoric. She said she wanted to “dismantle” the hostile discourse built around her person, based largely on misunderstandings.
The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.
Several scandals have exposed the internal dysfunctions and lack of truthfulness of many bishops, despite protests of transparency by the Church of France.
A growing area of concern, according to the numbers released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is the number of people who are neither working nor studying.
The advocacy organization had the bus made five years ago to show the contradictions and dangers of teaching children that biological sex is self-determined and can be changed surgically.
The objective is to find a balance among countries with widely diverging interests, from the Visegrad to the southern states.
The grassroots conservative movement in Brazil will continue and is already giving Lula much stronger opposition than he had counted on.
Politicians criticise Scholz for seeking a closer relationship with China. In a repeat of its mistake with Russia, Germany could become overly dependent on the economic giant, they warn.
