Tag: European Union

Europeans Pray for Le Pen’s First Round Victory on Sunday

Opinion polls point to the far-right’s Marine Le Pen as the main challenger to President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election, in a repeat of the 2017 match. Le Pen has shifted her campaign focus to purchasing power, the number one priority for French voters, without shedding far-right policies from her election programme. read more. Here are her main policy proposals:

Could Hungary’s Viktor Orbán be the Saviour of Europe

The international press loudly proclaimed that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would face his ‘toughest’ election fight ever, polls pointed to his potential defeat, and the EU withheld much-needed recovery funds from Hungary in the run-up to the election. Yet, Orbán not only prevailed but did so in a fashion that has left many in the Western media and political establishment in shock once again. Now, as the dust settles, what lessons can we take away from his historic win?

Biden, not Putin is a Disaster for the Dollar says Goldman Sachs of Wall Street and the European Central Bank

The United States and its European cohorts have deprived the Russian Central Bank of access to foreign reserves, which threatens to stop other countries from using the dollar, analysts at Goldman Sachs write in a research note. As Insider argues, countries are concerned about the abusive power such widespread use of the dollar gives the US, and investors might take that seriously, too.