Bernard-Henry Levy’s provocative trip to Libya Bernard-Henri Levy, the political philosopher who actively participated in the destruction of Libya in 2011, arrived in Misrata this week. The official purpose of the visit was reporting about mass graves in Tarkhuna left by Haftar’s forces, a story which is supposed to be published in the Wall Street Journal. #Tarhuna. Just after my ...
Europe France vs. Turkey and Russia On June 22, French President Emmanuelle Macron declared at a joint press conference with Tunisian President Kais Said that “Turkey plays a dangerous game in Libya”. Later Macron also accused Russia of interference in the Libyan conflict. On June 29, French President said he was concerned about the presence of PMC Wagner in the ...
It would be easier for Polish voters to skip voting in the second round of the presidential elections in Poland altogether, and simply wait for results of the American elections between Donald Trump and Joe Biden this Autumn instead. They might as well do so, given that the American President also de facto rules the US colonies such as Poland. ...
China-EU-USA: an attempt to reach an agreement Over the past week, Chinese and European diplomats have agreed on a joint video conference to cool tensions. After a string of accusations and scandals about the Coronavirus, this will be the first attempt at constructive negotiations. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Charles Michel, President of the European ...
The European Union is again in conflict with Hungary. This time, the European Court of Justice opposed a Hungarian requirement that groups receiving foreign funding identify themselves as such and disclose information about their donors. The Court found that Hungary’s restrictions on funding of civil society organizations were illegal, and called the policy of disclosure of sponsors “discriminatory and unjustified”. ...
For many years, speeches have been given at various international meetings to release or reduce the debts of some of the world’s poorest countries. These demands are highly expressed at every related or unrelated meeting of the United Nations. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, calls for a reduction in debt by poor African countries have increased. In a statement issued ...
Part 1 – How international finance and Germany destroyed Greece to create a totalitarian EU A colossal failure If we judge the Greek program not on the basis of our own criteria, but on the basis of the goals it set itself and of its predictions, we can safely say it was a gigantic failure, by far the biggest in the ...
Note: the data in the following article takes into account the state of Greek economy and society before the recent corona-crisis. According to the IMF, Greece will suffer a greater depression than all other EU members because of the pandemic, but nothing is certain for the time being. In any case, the economic and social results of the crisis will ...
The coronavirus pandemic has put many countries of the world, their health systems and their political organization under serious strain. The European Union has certainly not been exempt from this, the entire alliance strongly suffering from the outbreak’s impact, especially in Spain and Italy. At the recent European summit there were tense moments between representatives of various EU states who ...
BY TÜLİN UYGUR / STOCKHOLM There has been a boost in internal and external criticism in Sweden as a result of the government’s ‘herd immunity’ strategy. The Swedish experiment is ongoing, but the results are already coming in, and things don’t look good. On January 31, 2020, Sweden diagnosed its first coronavirus case, and immediately decided to follow a different path ...