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PARIS – After two weeks of crippling fuel strikes in France, the protest movement at oil refineries risks spreading to other sectors of the economy with fresh industrial action planned in the coming days. On Sunday, France’s left-wing alliance Nupes is also calling for a march against inflation and climate change, before a general public […]

Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houston and Women’s Institute of Houston. His latest book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.” François Rabelais, the barbed and bawdy observer of the politics of religious faith in 16th century France, once famously observed, l’habit ne fait pas le moine — […]

Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi appeared to describe Italy’s likely next prime minister and his supposed ally Giorgia Meloni as “patronizing, bossy, arrogant and offensive” in a note photographed by the press. The epithets, scrawled on a piece of paper in the Italian parliament, were published by La Repubblica on Friday and escalated a row […]

The death toll from an explosion in a Turkish coal mine had risen to 41, authorities said Saturday, with 11 workers hospitalized. The explosion struck the mine in Turkey’s northern Bartin province on Friday. In comments published by the news agency Bianet, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the site Saturday and offered condolences to the […]

Germany’s Green party has backed Economy Minister Robert Habeck’s plan to extend the life of two nuclear power plants, despite bitter divisions within the party. During a meeting on Friday evening in Bonn, the party congress defeated a motion to block the extension. But the Greens, which have a long-standing opposition to nuclear power, ruled […]

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into the EU’s coronavirus vaccine purchases, an announcement that will refocus attention on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s role in the matter.  The EPPO is an independent EU body responsible for investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, including fraud, money laundering and corruption. In its announcement on Friday, […]

The Black Sea grain deal can be saved and even expanded despite Russia’s threats to abandon it, a top United Nations official told POLITICO, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a renewed warning on Friday that the Kremlin might kill it. Moscow’s repeated threats come ahead of the expiry next month of a deal […]

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Like many Russians, Roman P. didn’t care much about politics, at least not for most of his life. The 44-year-old from Moscow had a good job in telecommunications and was able to take frequent vacations in Europe. He was more focused on his family and career than keeping up with the news and machinations in […]

William Nattrass is a freelance journalist and commentator based in Prague.   Serving as NATO’s Military Committee chairman from 2015 to 2018 and a former chief of staff of the Czech Army, Petr Pavel is now a leading candidate in the Czech Republic’s presidential election next year. And most tellingly, he believes that Russia’s revanchist mindset […]