EU politics
Al Jazeera – Germany and Italy block bid to suspend EU-Israel trade pact
Remarkably, the EU-Israel association agreement remains standing, despite Israel’s murderous rampage across the Middle East. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Energy
Euronews – Zelenskyy announces Druzhba oil pipeline repaired and ‘can resume operation’
How long before Nord Stream is back on line and Russian gas is reaching Germany again? Six months? A year? Read the article HERE.
Economics
Corruption
Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner – How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
‘Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can […]
EU politics
Kristof Szómbati – What Viktor Orbán’s Downfall Hasn’t Settled
‘In Hungary’s election, Péter Magyar rallied urban white-collar workers, business figures excluded from state patronage networks, intellectuals, and youth. It’s much less clear that his new government can satisfy all these groups’ expectations.’ In Jacobin. […]
Geopolitics
Jeffrey Sachs, Judge Napolitano – Are the Wars Over?
20 April 2026
Economics
Economics
Geopolitics
National Politics
Rolf Petri – ‘He could not trust this people.’: Germany in the Mirror of Erich Kuby (Interview with Susanna Böhme-Kuby)
“Under Nazi rule, the Germans were finally able to live out their arrogance towards others and their great-power fantasies, which had dominated them since the 19th century.” Rolf Petri is Full Professor of Contemporary History […]