Russian President Vladimir Putin was “pushed” into invading Ukraine and wanted to put “decent people” in charge of Kyiv, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has said, drawing fierce criticism just ahead of Italy’s election. The Italian leader, whose Forza Italia…
Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article 8 Don Bolduc with his campaign staff during his primary night watch party. After…
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has warned Italy of consequences should it veer away from democratic principles, issuing a barely veiled threat ahead of Sunday’s election that a rightist bloc led by Giorgia Meloni is expected to win.…
Another week, another election, and another rejection of the political establishment. In Sweden last week, the big gainers were the Sweden Democrats, a far-right nationalist party who will be kept out of government only because of a cordon sanitaire by the…
Hungary, where Viktor Orban’s Fidesz has been in power uninterrupted since 2010
In the wake of criticism over a lack of practical, on-the-ground support for Ukraine, Chairman of the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee of the French National Assembly Thomas Gassilloud said France had taken all the right steps to show…
The EU occupies a more prominent role in the upcoming Italian general elections on Sunday. For the first time, some parties put their European political family affiliation, the European People’s Party (EPP) and Renew Europe, in their electoral insignias. In…
Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg war crimes trials (Photo: Public Domain) Both before and after Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Soviet lawyer Aron Trainin proposed to criminalise the crime of aggression. The statute…
The group, the States Project, aims to help Democrats in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maine and Nevada, as the left tries to make up lost ground in state legislatures. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
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