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POLITICO: Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief – Denial

10:39 25.09.2024

POLITICO: Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief – Denial

After a spate of bad news involving giants like Volkswagen and Intel, the mood in Germany has turned gloomy. Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief: Denial, writes POLITICO. After years of turning a blind eye to what the rest of the world could plainly see, …

Keir Starmer is now less popular than Rishi Sunak: PM suffers 45 point approval ratings drop since July – ‘The Daily Mail’

10:38 25.09.2024

Keir Starmer is now less popular than Rishi Sunak: PM suffers 45 point approval ratings drop since July – ‘The Daily Mail’

Sir Keir Starmer (photo) has suffered a huge drop in approval ratings among the British public since becoming Prime Minister, according to a shocking new poll. The devastating figures compiled by Opinium show Sir Keir has plummeted by 45 points since July, with only 24% of voters believe he is …

View from London: The death pains of the European Union

10:36 25.09.2024

View from London: The death pains of the European Union

Even arch-Eurocrats are admitting that Brussels is leading Europe to ruin, notes British ‘Spiked’. The largely unspoken trade-off involved in membership of the European Union is that democracy and national sovereignty are sacrificed in return for economic prosperity. Member states give up much of their control over critical policy areas …

View from China: “We urge NATO to retire”

11:06 24.09.2024

View from China: “We urge NATO to retire”

We urge NATO to "retire" together with its outgoing secretary general, alongside the outdated concepts of Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, the wrong practices of advocating military force and pursuing "absolute security," and dangerous behaviors that disrupt Europe and the Asia Pacific as soon as possible, writes ‘The Global …

‘The National Interest’: The World faces a World War over Values

11:05 24.09.2024

‘The National Interest’: The World faces a World War over Values

A value-based conflict tends to be uncompromising, as values cannot be divided, stresses Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, a former state-secretary for the Royal Danish Foreign Ministry at ‘The National Interest’. We do not know when and how the war in Ukraine will end. But all wars do end eventually. The conflicts …

View from London: “The pager operation is far more likely to be the prelude to another all-out Israel-Lebanon War – with grim consequences for World peace”

11:03 24.09.2024

View from London: “The pager operation is far more likely to be the prelude to another all-out Israel-Lebanon War – with grim consequences for World peace”

If Israel, like Imperial Japan before it, thought this massive attack would serve to dissuade Hezbollah's fighters from entering a full-scale war with the Jewish state, I fear they will be disappointed, writes Mark Almond, a director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford. When the Japanese Navy Air Service bombed …

POLITICO: Macron goes Napoleon or… Machiavelli?

11:02 24.09.2024

POLITICO: Macron goes Napoleon or… Machiavelli?

The French president dodged political death over the summer… by throwing his allies under the bus. Macronism — his particular brand of politics that is a mixture of pragmatism and innovation and which was supposed to transcend traditional left-right party divisions — appears dead, notes POLITICO. French President Emmanuel Macron …

‘Forbs’: US vs. Russia-China – an Arctic power play

10:34 23.09.2024

‘Forbs’: US vs. Russia-China – an Arctic power play

The U.S. Naval Institute reported that China has successfully used the Northern Sea Route (NSR), an Arctic passage controlled primarily by Russia and long-anticipated as an alternative to the Suez, to carry Russian goods bound for Europe and Asia. The opening of the NSR presents an economic opportunity as a …

WSJ: While Federal Debt is soaring, Trump and Harris aren’t talking about…

10:31 23.09.2024

WSJ: While Federal Debt is soaring, Trump and Harris aren’t talking about…

Economists and policymakers already worry that the growing debt pile could put upward pressure on interest rates, restraining economic growth, crowding out other priorities and potentially impairing Washington’s ability to borrow in case of a war or another crisis, writes ‘The Wall Street Journal’. The U.S. isn’t fighting a war, …

WP: What does it mean a “Hezbollah’s Pearl Harbor”?

10:29 23.09.2024

WP: What does it mean a “Hezbollah’s Pearl Harbor”?

Israel’s complex and deadly attack on thousands of Hezbollah pagers and handheld radios across Lebanon appears to have been meticulously mapped out, writes ‘The Washington Post’. Israel, which rarely comments on its intelligence operations abroad, has neither claimed nor denied responsibility for the attack, which continued into a second day …

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