BBC Under Fire for Manipulating Trump’s Capitol Speech

BBC is facing accusations of manipulating footage of Donald Trump’s 6 January speech in a Panorama documentary aired just a week before the 2024 presidential election. A leaked 19-page dossier by former BBC standards committee member Michael Prescott claims the broadcaster spliced quotes to make it appear Trump incited the Capitol riot.

Orbán Aims Strategic Economic Partnership with US at Trump Meeting

Viktor Orbán will travel to Washington on 7 November to meet Donald Trump, seeking to strengthen Hungarian–American relations through a new strategic economic cooperation package. In a video statement, the prime minister said politically driven sanctions imposed under Joe Biden had been removed, paving the way for closer bilateral ties.

Trump–Orbán Meeting Could Forge a New US–Hungarian Energy Axis

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is set to meet President Donald Trump in Washington on 7 November, with energy cooperation expected to dominate the talks. According to Index, the two governments have worked for months on a deal involving American nuclear technology and gas exports that could fundamentally reshape Hungary’s energy strategy.

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock gives a speech at the presentation of the Guidelines on Feminist Foreign Policy in the Weltsaal of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, 1 March 2023

Fixing Germany’s Sovereignty Deficit: The Case for Sovereign Realism

‘Germany faces a stark choice between continued strategic drift and fundamental transformation. The half-measures of constrained realism will prove no more effective than the delusions of values-based idealism when confronted with determined opposition…Only genuine sovereign realism…offers the possibility of effective foreign policy in the age of great power competition.’

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

The Great European Delusion and the Dawn of Realist Foreign Policy

‘Our world has changed, the international order has transformed, and every actor is trying to adapt. With the end of unipolarity, the hegemony of liberal foreign policy also ended…Free trade has given way to protectionism; moralizing, value-centric diplomacy has given way to transactional realism. However, this recognition apparently eludes the European Union.’