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View from London: A fiscal squeeze in 2025 will harm economic growth

11:56 09.12.2024

View from London: A fiscal squeeze in 2025 will harm economic growth

The European Union does not seem to have a debt problem, stresses ‘The Economist’. At around 84% of gdp, its member countries’ overall public-debt ratio is a lot lower than Britain’s 104% or America’s 123%, let alone Japan’s 255%. Even if the roughly €1trn ($1.1trn) of collective debt — such …

Russian Foreign Ministry: “We urge all parties involved to refrain from violence and resolve all governance issues through political means in Syria”

16:37 08.12.2024

Russian Foreign Ministry: “We urge all parties involved to refrain from violence and resolve all governance issues through political means in Syria”

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after negotiations with several participants in the conflict in Syria, has decided to step down from his position and leave the country, giving instructions for a peaceful transfer of power, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported, Sputnik Globe writes. "As a result of negotiations between Bashar al-Assad …

Russophobia breeds idiocy: A coup d'etat has taken place in Romania, but ‘the blame’ for it lies with... Russia

9:15 08.12.2024

Russophobia breeds idiocy: A coup d'etat has taken place in Romania, but ‘the blame’ for it lies with... Russia

Romanian court cancels presidential election amid Russian influence fears, writes POLITICO. Constitutional court throws Romanian politics into turmoil, 2 days before runoff vote was due to take place! Romania’s top constitutional court on Friday dramatically cancelled high-stakes presidential elections after security services warned Russia was conducting “aggressive” hybrid attacks on …

A ‘Nissan’ senior official: “We have 12 or 14 months to survive”

9:14 08.12.2024

A ‘Nissan’ senior official: “We have 12 or 14 months to survive”

Nissan is searching for an anchor investor to help it survive a make-or-break year as longtime partner Renault sells down its holding in the crisis-hit Japanese carmaker, ‘The Financial Times’ writes. Two people with knowledge of the talks said Nissan was seeking a long-term, steady shareholder such as a bank …

Will Trump channel Nixon in Ukraine?

9:13 08.12.2024

Will Trump channel Nixon in Ukraine?

There are indications that the president-elect may intend further escalation, notes ‘The American Conservative’. The similarities between this most recent presidential election and that of 1968 are several. Like Joseph R. Biden, Lyndon B. Johnson was an increasingly polarizing and unpopular wartime president who declined to run for re-election. Their …

View from Washington: France and Germany – within a month of each other, both have seen their governments collapse

9:12 08.12.2024

View from Washington: France and Germany – within a month of each other, both have seen their governments collapse

The collapse of the government in France and the ruling coalition in Germany spells continued crises — and don't think war has nothing to do with it, writes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Two main lessons are to be drawn from the fall of Michel Barnier’s government in France. The first is …

FP: China and North Korea throw U.S. war plans out the window

10:21 07.12.2024

FP: China and North Korea throw U.S. war plans out the window

The fact remains that military ties among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are deepening. And this change should upend how the United States and its allies around the world think about and provide for their national security, writes ‘The Foreign Policy’. More recently, Russia and North Korea inked a …

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin: US loses leadership, wants to maintain it by intensifying conflicts and the world is witnessing the coming of a new coal era

10:19 07.12.2024

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin: US loses leadership, wants to maintain it by intensifying conflicts and the world is witnessing the coming of a new coal era

The US has lost its leadership in science, industry, and finance and has failed to maintain a fair world order. By unleashing various conflicts, the US is trying to create special conditions for its economy at the expense of other market participants, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said at the 17th …

Green madness leads to ‘farmers suicide’ in Canada

10:18 07.12.2024

Green madness leads to ‘farmers suicide’ in Canada

Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May told the Commons that farmers are committing suicide because of ‘climate change’. “I think we focus a lot on the carbon tax in this place without looking at the climate crisis and the real impact that has on Canadian farmers,” May said. “We really …

Vladimir Putin: Russia ready to deploy Oreshnik in Belarus in 2025

21:20 06.12.2024

Vladimir Putin: Russia ready to deploy Oreshnik in Belarus in 2025

Russia's Oreshnik missile system may be deployed in Belarus in the second half of 2025, President Vladimir Putin has said, TASS reports. "As far the possibility of deploying such, let's say, formidable weapons as the Oreshnik in Belarus is concerned, since we have signed today an agreement on security guarantees …

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