Macron under fire for ‘working lunch’ with Saudi Arabia’s bin Salman
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday for a working lunch, while NGOs accuse Macron of being the main architect…
June 2023
Spanish socialist party accuses media of meddling with election poll data
The socialist party PSOE has denounced media companies ABC, El Mundo and El Español, and poll-making companies Sigma2, GAD3, and SOCIOMETRA before the Central Electoral Board (JEC) for publishing polls…
Spain to push for ambitious migration pact during EU Council presidency
Spain wants to seal an ambitious pact on migration and asylum during the upcoming EU Council presidency, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday, adding that European countries cannot be…
Bulgaria edges closer to building US nuclear reactor
Bulgaria is getting closer to making a US nuclear reactor after the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy signed an official engineering contract for Front-End Engineering and Design of a nuclear…
In Trump Prosecution, Special Counsel Seeks to Avoid Distracting Fights
Jack Smith has taken an iron-fist-in-a-kid-glove approach, sidestepping secondary issues that could divert attention from the weight of the evidence he has assembled in his case against the former president.…
Poland ‘rejects masses of migrants’ to EU, cites human trafficking
Warsaw does not support allowing huge masses of migrants to move into the EU, nor does it agree to what it calls fees for rejecting migrants after receiving practically no…
Protect EU borders, but I don’t want to know how
Strengthening and protecting the EU’s external borders has been Europe’s narrative to tackle migration for several years now. But what Europe has never explained is what it actually means by…
German and Russian economy will shrink in 2023, experts say
The German economy is expected to shrink this year, falling behind other major economies, with only Russia doing worse, according to the forecast reports of two major economic research institutes…
Coast Guard Ends Post-9/11 Antiterrorism Patrols at Guantánamo Bay
By Carol Rosenberg Reporting from Guantánamo Bay June 16, 20
Regional centre-left chief quits over SPÖ’s ‘far-left newcomers’
The shake-up in Austria’s SPÖ over its new leadership continues, with Innsbruck chief Helmut Buchacher announcing his resignation over a party take-over of what he deems to be far-left newcomers.…