The envisaged airport for Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) — a large-scale infrastructure project designed to interconnect the wider region of central Europe through more than 2,000km of high-speed rail (Photo: Centralny Port Komunikacyjny) With Poland and Finland pledging to…
Equity is the avowed watchword of the Biden Administration on issues of social justice and equalization of outcomes. However, this principle has yet to be fully applied in the case of Ukraine. Equity is a part of the laws…
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Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the US House of Representatives early on Saturday (7 January), after making extensive concessions to a group of right-wing hardliners that raised questions about the party’s ability to govern. The 57-year-old Californian suffered…
Right-wing party Les Républicains confirmed it will back the much-delayed pension reform promised by President Emmanuel Macron, meaning that after months of uncertainty, it could now be passed with a parliamentary majority. The pension reform bill, among Macron’s key campaign…
Italian motorists are facing soaring fuel prices at the pump, but the government, which sets the currently very high excise duty and VAT, keeps pointing fingers at speculating resellers. The price of petrol, diesel and LPG – now €2.50 per…
The Czech Republic is saying goodbye to the decade-long era of controversial Czech President Miloš Zeman, known for his pro-Russian and pro-Chinese positions, and is hoping for a new democratic president. Before the end of his mandate and start of…
Bosnian Serbs will hold a controversial parade on Monday to mark the “statehood day” of their entity, Republika Srpska (RS), although Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court had long ruled the holiday unconstitutional. At the end of a brutal 1992-95 war amongst Serbs,…
Brazilian security forces wrested back control of Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Sunday (8 January) after a flood of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the seat of power, unleashing chaos on the capital. In scenes reminiscent of…
Police from all over the country are being sent to the western German village of Lützerath to evict climate activists currently blocking its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. According to information obtained by Spiegel,…