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"First Trump calls us Italians and Europeans parasites, and the Meloni government turns a deaf ear by lowering its head," said Schlein.

https://archive.ph/l35bl

 

French President Emmanuel Macron met his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić in Paris on Wednesday for a discreet working lunch, at a time when Vučic is facing mounting political pressure at home.

The Élysée initially offered no official communication about the meeting, including which topics were discussed.

But hours later, Macron took to social media platform X to share key takeaways from their "long exchange."

“I first reiterated the importance that France attaches to the democratic and European destiny of Serbia,” Macron posted.

https://archive.ph/bWxGC

 

The leaders of Romania’s liberal USR party announced Wednesday that they want to support Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan in the country’s upcoming presidential election instead of the party’s own candidate, Elena Lasconi.

 

Russia summoned the French ambassador in Moscow to the foreign ministry to complain after a Russian diplomat was detained by border guards at a French airport, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

"As a result of the demarches undertaken, our colleague was ultimately allowed to enter the country, but she had to spend a day in the border zone of the airport. We do not intend to leave this without consequences," state news agency RIA quoted Zakharova as saying.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Read-out of the phone call between President von der Leyen and Chinese Premier Li Qiang

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/read_25_1004

 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke to Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang offering “a negotiated resolution” to “the widespread disruption caused by the US tariffs” on Tuesday, according to a statement from the executive.

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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's X social media account was attacked on Tuesday morning, with fake posts appearing, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government office spokesperson said.

"The post about the attack on Czech soldiers is not true," spokesperson Lucie Michut Jesatkova said in a text message to Reuters.

https://archive.ph/OuhPe

 

Angered by the inadequate government measures to manage the flow, locals across Spain staged hunger strikes, plastered visitor hotspots with anti-tourism messages, and squirted tourists with water guns.

One major impact is the spiralling cost of housing as accommodation is snapped up for tourist lets and land bought for building new resorts.

 

Two high-ranking officials from France’s biggest far-right party publicly opened the door on Monday to bringing down the government a week after Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and subsequently barred from running for president.

https://archive.ph/OMHLx

 

Several schools in the German city of Duisburg remained closed on Monday as a precaution after warnings that they would be targeted with criminal actions.

The messages contained "threatening and right-wing extremist statements," police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said.

https://archive.ph/saXRL

 

Aubrey Cottle, a 37-year-old resident of Oshawa, Ont., has been criminally charged in Canada and the United States in connection with the 2021 hack of the Texas GOP. He was granted bail last week and is scheduled to appear in court on May 8.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Says it in the last paragraph, financial pressures & not having your own home.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/europa-krieg-szenarien-bnd-bundeswehr-li.3227229

translation

Germany's supreme soldier is convinced that Russia is preparing for a great war. Even after a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, Germany has no time “to take a deep breath”, says the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer. Russia continues to upgrade and has doubled the number of soldiers compared to pre-war times. The Russian military structure is clearly against the West. Therefore, an end to the war on Ukraine will not lead to “we have peace again on the European continent,” he said in the talk show “Maischberger” recently.

This coincides with the assessment of Jörg Schmitt, the deputy head of the investigative department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Together with colleagues from WDR and NDR, he was able to evaluate the situation analyses of the BND and the Bundeswehr. By the end of the decade, Russia could create the conditions for a large-scale conventional war against NATO, regardless of the war in Ukraine.

According to these sources, Moscow could try to test the Nato with various scenarios, says Schmitt. For example, by provocations in the Baltic region or in the Arctic. Vladimir Putin is concerned with exploring the US's responsiveness and assistanceUSA.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This quote from the article is interesting

Daniel Zeichner, the farming and fisheries minister, said that EU countries were “clearly pushing very hard” for greater access to UK waters.

His remarks came after the EU demanded that Britain cave to its demands on fishing in return for a new deal on defence cooperation.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My motive is to analyse our adversaries. I am European, and I am a fervent believer in a united Europe, and anybody who is trying to break us apart is my enemy.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hotznplotzn wrote:

"What are you doing here?"

I'm trying to analyse our adversaries. Dugin says China must be dismantled aswell as he believes they are a grave geopolitical threat to Russia.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (10 children)

But we have to deal with them. They are a superpower, a rival to the USA. I'm not saying we should believe what they say, but analyse why they are saying it. We cannot just ignore them as Europeans.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Yep, so what's their motive in publishing this?

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In 'The Foundation Of Geopolitcs' by Aleksandr Dugin, he says

The People's Republic of China, which represents an extreme geopolitical danger as an ideological enemy to the independent Russian Federation, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The Ukraine war has forged a relationship between russia and china that the USA wants an end to.

Just trying to understand what's going on and Europe's geopolitical maneuvers.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I've read on a few websites specializing in geopolitics that the trump administration is attempting something called a 'reverse nixon', to try and drive russia and china apart. Is this a factor in the EU trying to form a closer relationship with china?

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