This week’s edition of Power Play comes from the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, where host Anne McElvoy talks to President Zelenskyy’s closest aide, Andriy Yermak, and former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. As Russian forces advance on Kharkiv, delays in weapons deliveries from the U.S. and Europe are proving costly. Now the war has reached … Read more
Radical right-wing voters are all too often cast as old, white men, said De Voogd. “In part, that’s shifting; and in part, that image has never been true,” he said. According to the researcher, far-right voters typically fall into three broad categories: There are conservative voters, who previously backed Christian parties or the liberals. Then … Read more
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So how did Slovakia get where it is today — so riven between liberals and traditionalists, democrats and thugs, tolerance and its opposite — that political differences are now being settled with guns? Social whiplash Social division was always going to bedevil politics in Slovakia. Following the 1989 revolution across Eastern Europe, the former Communist … Read more
Robert Fico shooting was ‘politically motivated,’ Slovak officials say – POLITICO Skip to main content Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If … Read more
The deal still needs the endorsement of all four parties’ parliamentary factions. And the choice of a new prime minister could also still throw a last-minute spanner in the works. The announcement caps nearly six months of fraught talks between the four parties, which at one point saw the leader of the NSC walk away … Read more
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot on Wednesday after a government meeting, local media reported, suffering injuries to his head and chest before he was taken from the scene by his security detail. A woman at the scene in the town of Handlová, central Slovakia was cited by news outlet MNT.SK as saying that … Read more
“Being openly LGBTIQ in Europe should not be a struggle,” Rautio said. “Even though we see signs of progress, bullying, harassment and violence remain constant threats.” It is apparent that this rise in social acceptability has yet to translate to concrete protections, however. A vast majority of those polled by the EU agency are dissatisfied … Read more
China last year issued a 12-point statement outlining general principles for ending the war — including “abandoning the Cold War mentality” and resuming peace talks — which U.S. and EU officials have dismissed as an attempt to distract from its pro-Russia stance. Xi recently expanded on his principles for achieving peace in talks with German Chancellor … Read more
That suggests Ankara has “instilled new life into something that was already … straightforward but now has reappeared — as a Turkish delight,” Katona said, showing how “sanctions can be very easily circumvented.” For Turkey, poor compliance with Brussels sanctions makes sense if the country feels it has nothing to lose with the EU, said … Read more
