On the night of Monday May 5 to Tuesday May 6, Ukraine launched more than a hundred drones on Russian territory, targeting Moscow in particular and disrupting the operation of a dozen airports, Russian authorities said three days before the commemorations of the victory over Nazi Germany.
Guinean-born Catholic prelate calls for defense of traditional values. He’s not going to please the wokists, as his speech at the 2018 Brussels “God or Nothing” Conference suggests.
Technology items (computers, smartphones, microprocessors, etc.) have been removed from the list of Chinese products taxed at 145% by the United States. A setback that will be followed by others. And heralds the decline of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday by the Paris Criminal Court to five years’ ineligibility with immediate execution, together with a four-year prison sentence, two of which were suspended, and a fine of 100,000 euros. She will therefore be ineligible to stand for the 2027 presidential election.
Truce negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are taking place in Riyadh under the aegis of the United States, without Europe. But lasting peace will only be achieved when Moscow is assured that NATO is no longer a threat to the Russian Federation.
Turkey is experiencing an unprecedented wave of repression as protests intensify following the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposition mayor of Istanbul.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and many other Turkish cities on Friday to express their support for Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival.
Washington is threatening to tax European, and therefore French, wines and spirits by up to 200% in retaliation for Brussels’ measures.
As Washington suspends military aid to Ukraine, Brussels proposes a massive investment plan for European defense. Ursula von der Leyen presents an ambitious strategy for EU military autonomy.
The Ukrainian president left the White House in a hurry after an unprecedented heated exchange with his American counterpart.
After two years of legal wrangling, the Toulouse Administrative Court ruled that the Toulouse-Castres freeway project was illegal, finding that there was no “imperative reason of overriding public interest”. Other complaints are pending.
In an unfiltered interview, former Spanish ambassador José Zorrilla offers a critical analysis of the Ukrainian crisis, and reveals what goes on behind the scenes in European diplomacy.
