24 February. Morning. Phone call. Kyiv is being bombed, sirens are wailing all over the city. Following the unprovoked Russian attack in Ukraine, martial law is introduced, the President announces the severance of diplomatic relations with Moscow. Feeling of surrealism. Today is the 20th day of the war, and Russia continues to deny that it…
Following the OECD deal on a global minimum corporate tax rate, the Socialists in the European Parliament say that the EU must now ensure a rapid and ambitious implementation. EU ministers are expected to adopt an agreement tomorrow, but according to media reports they will postpone the implementation to December 2023. The Socialists and Democrats say…
What do the totalitarian policies of the Third Reich 80 years ago have in common with the modern imperial dimension of the Kremlin? In 2008 in an interview with Die Welt, the political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski equated the foreign policy of the then Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin with the actions of Hitler in…
