EU recognises Maduro rival as Venezuela president
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution recognising Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate president, after incumbent...
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Fascism at the gates
TWO recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored impressive gains in the elections to the European Parliament in June. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany and other like-minded parties...
Democracy won鈥檛 come through compromise, fear
HALF of the world鈥檚 population will have the opportunity to vote by the end of this year as 64 countries and the European Union are scheduled to open their ballot boxes. No previous year has been so flush with elections. Among these countries is India, where a remarkable 969 million voting papers had to be printed ahead of the elections...
Greece PM urges EU defend consumers against multinationals
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the EU to take on multinationals unfairly restricting the sale of goods in the single market, leading to higher prices for struggling consumers...