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Europe has won the war against inflation.
The monetary authority has not been the decisive factor in ending the crisis As the price of money rises, access to credit becomes more difficult and the economy cools. “We are breaking the neck of inflation,” said Christine Lagarde (ECB)
December 16, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Brussels puts Russian spy group in focus with sanctions. The European Union is trying to fine-tune formulas to counter and combat the Kremlin's growing hybrid war. In a significant move, and following a wave of Russian operations in several member states.
December 16, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Scholz calls for "prudence" in the face of war to make a comeback against the CDU.
The president is confident of his ability to refute the polls While he recalls the enormous support of his country for Ukraine, he limits aid?!
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 AM
US, EU, Turkey and Arab countries meet in Jordan on Syria.
Diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab countries met yesterday in Jordan to discuss Syria. The meeting ended with a consensus message that the new Syrian authorities must respect the rights of minorities.
December 15, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and current Democratic congresswoman for California, remains in a hospital in Luxembourg after suffering a fall while going down a staircase.
Pelosi, 84 years old, had undergone surgery this Saturday to implant a hip prosthesis.
December 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Spain denies visa to Nepalese child for surgery at Sant Joan de Déu.
The hospital has agreed to cover all medical, travel and accommodation costs
Tsewang has learned to get around with only one arm, the right one, due to a malformation in the left one.
December 15, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Spain shows that structural reforms bring long-term rewards, reform its banks and labour market. A package of measures aiming to boost renewables, including abolishing the “sun tax” that levied additional fees on solar power, has helped green energy boom.
December 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM
One lesson is to focus on services and not fetishise manufacturing. Although industrial production has not fallen as fast in Spain as in Germany, partly thanks to lower energy costs, it has still stagnated. But tourism has bounced back from its pandemic low,
December 15, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Spain is on course to be the best-performing rich-world economy of 2024 across a range of measures including GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy and the performance of the stockmarket. Both overall economic growth and the pace of job creation are running faster than in America.
December 15, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Syria will also fail if it becomes an arena for the rivalries of outside powers. It is more likely to prosper if it is left alone. And only if it prospers will millions of refugees choose to return home.
December 15, 2024 at 7:22 AM
With so much strife, no wonder many share a fatalistic belief that Syria is doomed to collapse into civil war once again. If it does so, they rightly warn, it will export refugees, jihadists and instability beyond the Middle East and into Europe.
December 15, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Syria’s new powerbrokers are hardly men of peace. Until 2016 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was known as Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of alQaeda. Its founder, Ahmad al-Sharaa, had fought the Americans as a member of IS in Iraq under the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Jolani.
December 15, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Now that Mr Assad has fled to Moscow, the question is where will liberation lead. In a part of the world plagued by ethnic violence and religious strife, many fear the worst
December 15, 2024 at 7:11 AM
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era
Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:59 AM
President Biden, Vice President Harris and Gershkovich’s family greeted the Journal reporter after the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.
December 14, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of a major prisoner swap. The reporter and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for Russians held in the U.S. and Europe.
December 14, 2024 at 7:56 AM
The other news is the de facto break-up of the NFP, (LFI, the Socialist Party, the communists and the ecologists). The socialists, despite voting for the motion of censure, grew tired of the constant refusal of Mélenchon's party to build an alternative and decided to negotiate with Macron.
December 14, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Macron appointed centrist Francois Bayrou, leader of the Democratic Movement, as prime minister yesterday to end the political crisis in France. Bayrou, 73, a man of dialogue and three times a minister, will have to avoid further upsets, approve the budget and avoid another vote of no confidence.
December 14, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Macron chooses François Bayrou to form a government and end the crisis

“Reconciliation is necessary,” he said in his first statements. The other news is the breakup of the New Popular Front, the left-wing alliance
December 14, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Trump seems likely to elevate political partisanship over military competence and ethical discretion in determining the promotion of officers below the highest ranks. That would result in a dominant network of senior officers who would follow the whims of a president over the constitutional order.
December 14, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Donald Trump considered plans to fire Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and senior officers connected to former Gen. Mark Milley, and to potentially ensure the promotion of senior officers based on their personal loyalty to the president.
December 14, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Russia cannot continue to fight at its present pace indefinitely. Its losses will reach a critical level.
December 14, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Russian losses are immense. Russia is spending down its cash reserves. It’s losing 35,000 to 45,000 men per month to death or serious injury. It’s also losing around 100 tanks per month.
December 14, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Russia may be reaching a crucial moment in its war against Ukraine. “The sands are running through the hourglass for both Russia and Ukraine." Ukraine’s problems are obvious — it’s losing ground, it faces a grave manpower shortage and with Trump administration, continued American support is in doubt
December 14, 2024 at 5:21 AM