The Engine Room of European Union Economies admits a Russian Victory as Germany blinks first. Humbled the word is out, ‘the political and economic isolation of the Russian Federation in the long term is impossible, the prosperity of the European Union, including Germany, will always depend on dialogue with Russia.’
Residents of the Champ de Mars district in Paris are outraged by the dirt, illegal trade and rampant crime in the immediate vicinity of the Eiffel Tower, according to Le Figaro. According to the publication, the quarter in the very centre of the city has become an unsafe territory for the local population and tourists. District 7 Mayor Rashida Dati whose parents are North African is asking Mayor Anna Hidalgo, a Spanish woman, to install a fence around the Champ de Mars to close the area at night and thus fight illegal trade.
The collateral damage of the West’s economic war with their trade rival, for almost two months they have been held captive in French ports. In Saint-Malo, Marseille and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Russian cargo ships carrying cars or chemicals were stuck because their owners allegedly fell under sanctions imposed by Washington and Brussels against Russia.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa penned a column published by the Le Monde daily newspaper in France just hours after the televised debate between presidential contenders Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in which they called on the French people to vote for Emmanuel Macron, who they label the ‘democratic candidate,’ in Sunday’s second-round election.
The Freedom House think tank, funded by billionaire oligarch George Soros and the U.S. State Department, is clearly furious about Viktor Orbán’s landslide democratic victory.
Western sanctions do not contribute to the end of the conflict in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by Member of the European Parliament Claire Daly in an interview with Global Times. Moreover, she said, the restrictions against Moscow are actually hurting the bloc’s economy and potentially leaving millions of its citizens out of work.
CLAIRE DALEY, Irish MEP: I never thought NATO was there to protect peace and security in Europe. And if people thought that was his goal, then he certainly never succeeded in achieving it. I guess he was the other side of the Cold War.
Marine Le Pen had been relatively untouched by the French mainstream media up until the first round of the presidential election, but now pro-Macron media’s gloves are coming off.
Presumably, as part of a deliberate effort to derail her presidential chances, the European Union has exhumed 18-year-old embezzlement charges against Marine Le Pen. The EU’s anti-fraud body has accused French anti-globalist leader Marine Le Pen and associates of embezzling around 600,000 euros during their time as MEPs,’ reports AFP.
The umbrella organization representing the Jewish community in France has called for a massive turnout in favour of President Macron for the final round of the presidential election on Apr. 24.
After the introduction of large-scale sanctions by the West, sales of Russian oil and gas on the world market not only did not fall but, on the contrary, continue to grow, allowing Moscow to earn more and more money on the export of energy resources. According to experts, in 2022 Russia can receive more than $320 billion from the sale of energy resources, that is, more than a third more than last year reports Insider.
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