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Orbán evokes ghost of Goebbels and courts EU isolation

by Mark Porter Cannes, July 28, 2022 (updated 01/08/22) Viktor Orbán, 59, veteran Hungarian prime minister and Putin cheerleader, is hardly renowned for his restraint. His...

Six months on – a reporter describes how it has been

‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas from Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont, six months in Ukraine “I sleep in my clothes so I...

Odessa – will grain at last relieve world hunger?

es Vienna, July 23, 2022 Maybe not. Just after yesterday's supposedly landmark deal in Istanbul to start shipping millions of tons of grain to a...

Meduza – behind the scenes at the Kremlin

es Vienna, July 22, 2022 Meduza, banished along with its staff to Lavia, remains one of the best sources of information on Russia. Today it...

Google banned in occupied Ukraine

es Vienna, July 22, 2022 Russia's clampdown on independent news has been remarkably effective in creating a parallel reality/ unreality. Now the same method is...

Killings haunt Biden visit to Israel and Saudi prince

es Vienna, July 14, 2022 The shadow over President Biden's four-day tour of the Middle East has a name, that of the legendary American-Palestinian Al...

Trumpism – interview reveals “why we got into it”

es Vienna, July 14, 2022 This remarkable interview with a former "Trumper" is worth reading, and explains the kind of herd instinct and straight idiocy...

Press review – extreme heat everywhere in Europe

es Vienna, 13 July, 2022 Eurotopics today publishes its usual excellent review of the European press, dealing especially with the extreme weather across the world,...

Council of Europe flexes muscles on UK

es/wh  Strasbourg, July 11, 2022 The "yes, but not quite yet" resignation of UK prime minister Boris Johnson has left the remains of his assaults...

Do sanctions actually work?

London, July 11, 2022 The AEJ's ever-active UK Section invited international economic strategist and sanctions expert Timothy Ash for a midday session to assess the...

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