“By threatening a UK-based NGO with financial penalties and jail for merely reporting on the human rights situation in Hong Kong, this letter exemplifies why Hong Kong’s National Security Law is so dangerous.”—Benedict Rogers
There has long been an agreement among Swedish economists that government should exercise prudence in terms of fiscal policy. This agreement may be evaporating.
Following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians and Russian-speaking Germans have increasingly been the targets of seething ethnic hostility in the past few weeks, facing hundreds of attacks and exclusion from healthcare facilities and restaurants.
At $1.0943 per euro on March 14th, the dollar stood at its strongest against the European currency since April 2019.
French President Emmanuel Macron was keen to display a smiling optimism by answering questions in English to international journalists in Versailles; a few minutes later, he was grave and serious in his address to French journalists, commenting in exactly the opposite terms.
Deep-rooted internal divisions among the Catholic Church’s upper echelons have been revealed as Scandinavian and Polish prelates have expressed deep concern over the radical, secularly progressive direction of Germany’s ‘Synodal Way.’
For the past 1½ years, critics have claimed that German hospitals have been reducing the number of intensive care beds in order to be eligible for an allowance. While often dismissed by fact-checkers as a conspiracy theory, a group of lawyers has now sued two German hospitals for fraud worth millions of euros.
Interested parties would be furnished with the necessary documentation, including I.D., which the group would steal from someone who looked like the would-be illegal migrant. In cases in which no such documents could be secured, these would be forged.
Despite recent reports and studies showing the diminishing effect of booster vaccinations, German government officials are still preparing a series of proposals for mandatory vaccinations. The vote is scheduled for early April.
Mistaking itself for an organization of ethicists, sociologists, or moral philosophers, the WHO has determined that the only issue at stake in abortion is medical.
The EU defends the sanctions as a means toward protecting the rule of law, judicial independence, and transparency; Warsaw and Budapest, however, read the ruling as a political tool used to punish governments that the EU disapproves of.
The German Agora Institute proposed the introduction of a new car toll to compensate for the loss of tax revenue that will follow the transition from gas to electric vehicles. It is the latest proposal of an institute with strong ties to Germany’s Green lobby.
