According to Gertrud Traud, a senior economist at Landesbank, the punitive measures are harming the world more than the nation they are intended to target.
As the current financial, energy and food crises are destabilizing governments around the Middle East, will terrorist organizations grow bolder and more ‘apocalyptic’ in their approach, posing new terror threats to Europe?
It was high time the practice of ‘taking Hungarians for an idiot’ stopped, and the country that has a one-thousand-year-old Christian statehood is given the respect it deserves.
Climate change is ravaging the planet and Joe Biden is responsible for taking action to mitigate its effects. While some external factors hinder his work, he could and should do more.
If the EU wants to warm its ties to Israel for the sake of its energy security, it should leave behind its decades-long inconsonant foreign policy and “biased neutrality” towards the Jewish state.
No matter who wins the race in September, the new Prime Minister will face enormous economic and foreign policy challenges. In addition, leading the Conservatives to victory in 2024, after fourteen years of being in power, will not be an easy task either.
The Cuba Assembly opened door to legalise gay marriage and allow same sex couples to adopt children. While the move might come as a surprise given the country’s strong Catholic tradition, if same sex marriage is approved on September’s referendum Cuba would join the row of 7 Latin American countries who already legalised gay marriage.
The Commission’s own studies do not justify the profound concerns about corruption and the rule of law in Hungary that the EC tends to cite during the negotiations.