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View from London: Europe is finished

10:44 05.01.2025

View from London: Europe is finished

It’s time to mourn the demise of old Europe. The rot is too far gone, the decline too pronounced, the welfarism, decadence, pacifism and self-hatred too ingrained, the doom-loop unstoppable. Once the world’s richest, most advanced continent, Europe is finished, its humiliating fall all too obvious to the rest of …

An overproduction crisis – Mexico is sitting on 500 million liters of unsold tequila

10:42 05.01.2025

An overproduction crisis – Mexico is sitting on 500 million liters of unsold tequila

Falling demand for tequila in the United States has left Mexico’s producers of the spirit with a surplus of unsold inventory, according to a Saturday report in the London-based ‘Financial Times’, ‘Mexico News Daily’ quotes. Coupled with the prospect of tariffs being slapped on exports to the U.S. under President-elect …

Newsweek: Yellowstone volcanic activity on the move, geologists warn

10:41 05.01.2025

Newsweek: Yellowstone volcanic activity on the move, geologists warn

Magmatic activity deep beneath the Yellowstone Supervolcano may be shifting in a northeasterly direction. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) published in ‘The Nature’, which probed the crust beneath Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area, ‘Newsweek’ writes. The …

Poland's EU presidency could leave its economy in ruins

11:46 04.01.2025

Poland's EU presidency could leave its economy in ruins

Warsaw wants to use its turn in the EU's rotating chair to take on Russian imports, writes POLITICO. Europe is still buying vast quantities of Moscow’s oil and gas, helping fill the Kremlin’s war chest. Now, Poland wants to put the squeeze on those revenues. Warsaw — one of Kyiv’s …

Denmark to boost Greenland defense amid Trump comments

11:44 04.01.2025

Denmark to boost Greenland defense amid Trump comments

Denmark announced a major new package to boost the security of Greenland in a move the Danish defense minister called “ironic” because it came just two days after President-elect Trump called for U.S. ownership of the Arctic island. Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that …

View from India: The skyrocketing gas prices will further shoot up the cost of production in European economies

11:41 04.01.2025

View from India: The skyrocketing gas prices will further shoot up the cost of production in European economies

The end of Russian natural gas flows to Europe via Ukraine is likely to boost competition with Asia and prices for alternatives, Bloomberg notes. “This is going to further tighten the LNG market,” Scott Darling, a managing director at Haitong International Securities, said on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. “Supply, particularly …

Vasily Nebenzia: Germany and Japan will not be able to get a seat in the UN Security Council

11:41 04.01.2025

Vasily Nebenzia: Germany and Japan will not be able to get a seat in the UN Security Council

Germany and Japan will not be able to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia. "The anniversary of the organization (UN - ed.) is, of course, an occasion to look back and look to the future. Naturally, the main …

View from Britain: How ‘global Troika’ can transform the world in 2025

11:19 03.01.2025

View from Britain: How ‘global Troika’ can transform the world in 2025

Panic in Britain! Britain fears the Trump arrival. In Britain, they already called USA, Russia and China "the revisionists". In this very interesting FT comment you can see how the British themselves suddenly imagine a situation where the US, Russia and China can become a "global Troika" that will agree …

The Daily Beast: “Without a speaker, the House of Representatives could become paralyzed, and unable to certify Trump’s re-election victory, plunging the Capitol and the country into political chaos”

11:18 03.01.2025

The Daily Beast: “Without a speaker, the House of Representatives could become paralyzed, and unable to certify Trump’s re-election victory, plunging the Capitol and the country into political chaos”

The MAGA-verse could be on the brink of exploding into an all-encompassing constitutional crisis, with Donald Trump’s inauguration as possible collateral damage. The incoming Congress is scheduled to start on Jan. 3, but following a bruising pre-Christmas battle to keep the government open, a few Republican lawmakers — and even …

MFA: Main foreign policy results in 2024

11:17 03.01.2025

MFA: Main foreign policy results in 2024

Main Foreign Policy Results In 2024. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 27 December 2024. In the outgoing year, Russian diplomacy made energetic efforts to implement the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation approved by President Vladimir Putin in March 2023. While the collective West …

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