

German Police To Clear Protesters To Expand Lignite Mine
The 200 activists currently occupying the village of Lützerath are not expected to leave calmly.
The 200 activists currently occupying the village of Lützerath are not expected to leave calmly.
It is easy to distinguish and denounce a full-blown dictatorship, one that haunts, censures, and kills thousands. It is less straightforward to spot a soft dictatorship in an EU candidate country.
Local protesters were most angered by the government’s failure to consult the community before bringing the large group of single-adult migrant men into the area.
The National Platform in Defense of Transport recently voted to call for an indefinite strike, a move supported by 96% of its members.
Shortly after some 3,000 people gathered in front of the National Assembly last Wednesday in Sofia, tempers flared, and demonstrators—comprised heavily of supporters of the irredentist-nationalist Revival party—clashed with police and stormed towards the parliament, coming just several meters away from the main entrance.
What galvanized the protestors ranged from resistance to masking, objection to the controversial COVID Safety Ticket (CST), which allows only those in the vaccinated, testing negative, or newly recovered categories to enter most public spaces, to the specter of mandatory vaccination–for now, limited to those in care and health services.
Political and military leaders in Austria have called for massive protests against the government’s new anti-COVID lockdown measures.