Hungary is approaching a severe energy crisis. The Paks Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s only nuclear facility and the source of roughly 40% of its electricity, is currently operating at just 10% of its nominal capacity.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted earlier this month that Germany’s ongoing energy crisis [was due to the lack of Russian gas.
Germany and other EU nations are governed by a political class that is more concerned with its own survival than with the crises collapsing their countries’ economies
This decline is probably what a very old country looks like: too few young workers to patch the potholes, too few young families to fill the shelves of shops, and too few taxpayers to provide the country with the money to pay for any of the above.
Fast-moving fires near Madrid, Bordeaux, and Valencia have forced more than 360,000 people to evacuate over the past several days.
Nobody expected to have to question every ingredient, every cleaner, every cosmetic, every piece of clothing, every product brought into their home.
‘We crossed the border yesterday and waited in Narva for twenty-two hours. It’s brutal. People are all going crazy, starting to attack each other,’ writes Irina Kovaleva, a resident of Switzerland.
2020. Covid. Toilet paper disappeared from stores: a rumour spread that it was being used to make medical masks, which were already in short supply. People drew their conclusions and rushed to the shops.
The Dutch POW camp features barracks housing groups of roughly 20 detainees. It seeks to replace traditional watchtowers with guards by camera-equipped poles, with monitoring also being carried out by drones.
‘Sexually transmitted infections have been on the rise for 10 years and reached record high levels in 2024,’ said Bruno Ciancio, head of ECDC unit for directly transmitted and vaccine-preventable diseases.
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