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Mr President, the central slogan in the September 20 election campaign is “Greece Forward”. Who took Greece backwards? Was it the seven month period Syriza was in power or is […]
It hasn’t happened in 60 years, but nine parties hope to win seats in Greece’s parliamentary elections this Sunday, September 20 2015. Acc ...
Two new opinion polls published on September 16 paint a conflicting picture ahead of the September 20 2015 general election in Greece. An opinion po ...
The European Commission might twist Romania’s arm and make it accept more migrants that it is willing to take in. And that was the worse case sce ...
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico and his government continue to voice their opposition to EU-wide quotas on accepting refugees after Hungary closed its borders, and the subsequent reimposition of border checks […]
The European Parliament has backed a plan to distribute some 120,000 refugees among European Union member countries in an effort to relieve overcrowding in EU border nations that are the […]
Two international rights organizations have criticized Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for signing a decree that banned 41 foreign journalists and bloggers from entry into Ukraine for one year. The Organization […]
Prominent foreign journalists briefly found themselves in the company of Kremlin cheerleader and Chechen strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Ukraine’s recently released list of sanctioned individuals. The move ignited such […]
For a film subtitled The Scorch Trials and mostly set in a post-apocalyptic desert in a not-too-distant future here on Earth, it is surprising that this second installment of the […]
An ode to genitalia, vigorous rutting and the release of bodily fluids, Gaspar Noé’s Love is the polar opposite of Michael Haneke’s similarly titled Amour. For one, its two main […]
