‘make a good decoration’ Journalist Faïrouz ben Salah, who lives in Tunis and also writes regularly for Dutch newspapers, is skeptical of Bouden’s appointment. According to the publicist, it is likely that Saied chose a woman to appease the Western world after taking power. “When the going gets tough, you can gain support in Europe if you take a feminist …
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German liberals not yet abandon government option with loser in CDU / CSU elections | Abroad
Although the German Liberals (FDP) are in talks with the Greens on government participation, possibly with the winner of the SPD election, they are not yet ruling out a coalition with the loser CDU / CSU. In the talks, the FDP, which finished fourth in the Bundestag election, clings to the possibility of a so-called Jamaican coalition with the CDU …
Read More »Europe looks forward to German training
Either way, changes in the EU’s biggest and most powerful Member State mean changes in Brussels. After the formation of a new government, how will Germany position itself with regard to the climate, the rule of law in the EU, migration, fiscal policy and (again) European cooperation? Germany has been talking about him in Brussels since the elections. In itself, …
Read More »CDU leader Laschet apologizes for electoral defeat
German center-right CDU / CSU list leader Armin Laschet apologized for the wrong results in the elections last Sunday. He admitted that mistakes were made in the election campaign, insiders told the DPA news agency. Of union, as the CDU and CSU are collectively called, won 24.1% of the vote, the worst national result in the history of the party. …
Read More »Greece buys three warships from France for 3 billion euros
Greece will buy three new warships to be built from France. This was announced on Tuesday by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at a press conference in Paris, Reuters news agency reported. The transaction amounts to around 3 billion euros. For France, the sale of ships represents a small financial windfall after the failure of a military agreement with Australia. …
Read More »The man who shot US President Reagan unsupervised
The man who shot US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, John Hinckley, will no longer be under judicial review as of June of next year. The man was already published of a psychiatric hospital. “If it wasn’t for the president he was trying to kill, he would have been unconditionally released a long time ago,” the judge said. Hinckley, 66, …
Read More »Putin believes NATO, US cross ‘red line’ with military exercise in Ukraine
Image of Western Ukraine from the NATO-U.S. Rapid Trident 2021 exercise.Reuters Image Putin met his Belarusian counterpart Lukashenko on Monday about NATO’s “increased activity” in Ukraine. Ukrainian units began military exercises with NATO and US troops last week. Four thousand Ukrainian soldiers and two thousand Western soldiers are participating in the maneuvers. The exercise, Rapid Trident 2021, follows a large-scale …
Read More »Trump wants to run for president in 2024: “Only bad news from a doctor will stop me” Abroad
VIDEOFormer US President Donald Trump (75) wants to run in the 2024 presidential election in the United States, provided he has his health permits. Trump said this during an interview on the Conservative American Channel America’s real voice. Koen Van De Sype Sep 27, 2021 Last update: 12:22 When asked what might hinder a presidential race, Trump replied, “Bad news …
Read More »Iceland secures majority of women in parliament after elections
The general elections in Iceland marked a European first: for the first time, more women than men were elected to parliament, the so-called Althingi. The final result was announced on Sunday, Reuters news agency reported. The current coalition of the Left-Green Movement of Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Conservative Independence Party and the Center-Farm Progressive Party, have won 37 seats …
Read More »Taliban call for resumption of scheduled international flights to Afghanistan | Abroad
During the Taliban coup, which began in August, all commercial flights to and from the country were cut off. Kabul Airport has been used by Western countries to evacuate around 120,000 people with military planes. This happened after the Taliban advanced into Kabul after a lightning offensive. Western countries then quickly withdrew their citizens from the city. The US military …
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