Russia Today Shuts Down German Broadcasting Operations
The closure comes after a year-long battle with German regulators and new EU sanctions making financial transactions by the site impossible.
Thomas O'Reilly
February 7, 2023
A clear majority, 65-77% among center-right voters, want Finland to join NATO, while only 39% of voters for the radical Vänsterförbundet are in favor.
For both parties,VOX and Partido Popular, governing together is a test for a new model for the Spanish Right.
Olaf Scholz’s decision is a blow to European cooperation, even though a fortnight ago the German Chancellor supported the joint programme underway between Paris, Berlin, and Madrid.
The incident, precipitated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, comes as Europe grapples with a worrying uptick in ethnic hatred directed at ordinary Russians.
A coalition of 36 MEPs spanning the entirety of the Left-Right spectrum have signed onto an initiative which, among other things, calls for the immediate resignation of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who’s accused of playing a central role in a “gigantic Covid-19 scientific fraud.”
“What is proposed by Mr. Macron is the absolute abandonment of women and the elimination of a new member of our society that deserves our respect and protection,” the One of Us letter reads.
“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.’
