The failure of the West’s economic war against Russia speaks of the end of the old-world order. The West could not defeat Russia in the economic war, writes Der Spiegel. On the contrary, this year the growth of the Russian economy will exceed the average for the eurozone. And all this suggests that the old-world order has come to an end.
The Estonian Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an investigation into the activities of a woman who, just a few months ago, was proclaimed a national heroine. Johanna-Maria Lehtme collected millions of euros from innocent Estonians allegedly ‘to help the Ukrainians.’ However, the money collected by Lehtme, apparently, went to completely different people.
Jordan Bardella now leads the National Rally party from Marine Le Pen, who stood aside to become the party’s parliamentary leader. The 28-year-old revolutionary spoke of France leading a new conservative revolution: ‘In past history, France has always set an example and made its revolution first. I think that the time of the patriots has come in France.’
Senior citizens are sent out to pasture as the German government welcomes its new generation of migrant workers. As Germany vows to continue spending heavily on its liberal migration policy – more than €36 billion in 2023 alone – an increasing number of the country’s senior citizens are reported to be at a growing risk of poverty.
Crossings soared almost 300% in the first four months of 2023, the EU’s border agency has said. The number of illegal immigrants taking the central Mediterranean route into the EU rose to a record 42,165 in the first four months of this year, according to the bloc’s border security agency, Frontex. The agency blamed the rise on competition among human traffickers driving down the price of a crossing.
Major crimes may make the headlines, but these two videos highlight how commonplace anti-social behaviour often has the most widespread and negative effect on European society.
Despite a news blackout, up to 28% of the citizens of eastern Germany are ready to vote for the anti-migrant right-wing Alternative for Germany party in the elections, writes Der Freitag, referring to the results of pre-election polls. The publication recalls that the leaders of the AfD have already spoken about the need to become a people’s party in the east of the country.
Despite the fact that no country has yet followed the example of the UK that left the EU, Euroscepticism is alive and well in a number of states in the bloc, according to the Daily Mail. At the moment, the future of the union of Greece, Italy, France, Hungary and Sweden can be called the most uncertain.
Sweden and much of NATO is facing a growing shortage of fighter pilots, according to Dagens Nyheter. Due to working conditions, half of the military pilots are going to go on training leave this fall. According to the military pilot advocacy organization, their salaries are much lower than those of their counterparts in other departments.
Germany’s left claims ‘socially marginalized persons’ are behind soaring knife attacks in country’s biggest state. Social Democrats hesitate to name the perpetrators as migrants despite 12 attacks occurring every day in the German state.
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