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Updated: 1 day 34 min ago
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 11:48
The EU Commission and several northern European countries are reacting to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's unilateral moves in the area of foreign with boycotts. Orbán visited Putin, Xi and Trump at the beginning of his country's EU Council Presidency. EU commissioners and representatives of several EU states have now said they won't attend ministerial meetings in Budapest. Europe's press debates whether this is the right approach.
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 11:48
The German Ministry of the Interior has banned the right-wing extremist magazine Compact. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser justified the ban saying it was a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist milieu that incites hatred against Jews, people with a migration background and parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner. Commentators are not unanimously in favour of the decision.
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 11:48
On 15 July 1974, Cypriot officers, supported by the Greek military junta, staged a coup against the democratically elected government in Nicosia with the aim of making Cyprus part of Greece. Turkey then occupied the northern part of the island, invoking its right to intervene as the protecting power of the Turkish Cypriots. That the occupation of the north continues to this day, long after those who staged the coup were overthrown, is as much of a violation of international law as the coup itself.
Fri, 07/12/2024 - 12:30
The question of how to deal with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine was at the heart of the Nato summit that ended on Thursday. Kyiv will receive 40 billion euros in military aid over the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and five air defence systems. Russia was described as the "greatest and most immediate threat", and China as its "decisive accomplice". While Ukraine did not receive a formal invitation to join, its path into Nato is "irreversible", the alliance has stressed. The reactions in the press are mixed.
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