The massive protests across Sri Lanka since March and especially April 2022 are due to the worst economic and financial crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948. They are the...

In the French presidential election, the worst case scenario could by avoided. President Macron was reelected for another...

As in 2017, Emmanuel Macron will again face Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election run-off on April 24, 2022....

Democracies are not strong because we are all good democrats but because democracies (normally) offer prosperity. If they can’t provide this anymore, the enthousiasm for democracy...

The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (*1963) “wins” another two-thirds majority in the April 3, 2022...

The West must outspend Russia in Ukraine. The military might of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other nations...

As a former KGB agent stationed in the GDR, Russian President Vladimir Putin is fluent in German. On September 25, 2001 he made a...

For many years under former chancellor Merkel as well as in the first months of the current Ampel coalition under Chancellor...

On February 21, 2022 the wake-up call was rude. After a long, televised rant in which he simply denied the existence of an...

It was clear from the start that Boris Johnson is unfit to lead the United Kingdom. Exiting the world’s largest free trade...

The (small) surprise winner of the primaries of Les Républicains in France: Valéry Pécresse. For the first time in their...

It is complicated. The social-democrat Olaf Scholz has currently the biggest chances to become the next German chancellor. But...

Without the United States, NATO is a paper tiger. Therefore, decisions made by U.S. presidents are crucial for the entire...

In a speech which ended a few minutes ago, Joe Biden’s defended the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said he had no...

After twelve long straight years in power (and fifteen in total), with especially economic highs, a great vaccine rollout and...

At first there was another stalemate in Israel after the fourth election in two years. No political camp managed to win a Knesset...

Below you find the remarks (full text) by U.S. President Biden in his first address to a Joint Session of Congress on April 28,...

There is this former KGB agent, stationed in Germany, who later led the Russian secret service FSB before rising to the top as...

Trump protesters occupied Capitol Hill, some breaking glass and entering the parliament building, while the two chambers of...

Today, the UK’s House of Commons backed the post-Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Parliament approved the...