Apart from vastly increasing the executive’s power, the proposed reform would have enshrined ideological assumptions around gender and sexuality and the green energy transition. In the end, 62% of Chilean voters voted against it.
The debate over the Order of Malta’s status as a “subject of the Holy See” is not new, but Pope Francis’ reforms have caused anxiety for those who understand what is at stake in the Order’s loss of sovereignty.
One of Germany’s largest nitrogen plants, responsible for producing fertilizer and AdBlue supplements for trucks, has halted production, putting crops and supply chains at severe risk.
The parliament was called in for an extraordinary session because the prime minister’s measure would make the government a co-signer for new lines of credit from private financial institutions for energy companies.
The number of troops on the ground is much lower than in the previous 2018 exercise. But the symbolic significance of this event is quite different. It is an explicit display of the Sino-Russian alliance on the international stage.
A group of nine countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark, already warned the EU that it was going too far.
Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.
A majority of voters (35%) view the Sweden Democrats’ immigration program as the most favorable to the country’s interests.
The leftist-led interior ministry’s decision has drawn sharp criticism from Germany’s center-Right and Right.
From 2021 to 2022, youth unemployment declined from 16.3% to 14.2% in the euro zone and from 16.1% to 14.0% in the EU.
The assailant, who was arrested on sight, is a 35-year-old Brazilian man.
The bronzes were removed from the Edo kingdom when admiral Sir Harry Rawson led British soldiers into Benin City in 1897
