Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally both failed to garner expected support in French regional elections that saw an unprecedented rate of abstention. Read More »

French President Emmanuel Macron, whose poll numbers are abysmal and needs a sincere shot in the arm, just gave away the plot with his outside voice.  I’ve noticed this trend within The Davos Crowd in recent months, speaking with their outside voice what they only ever talk about internally. Read More »

The European Council, comprising European Heads of State and Government, is aiming to set up an e-mail monitoring system. This initiative being extremely unpopular since it would undercut individual freedoms even further, it is promoted under the noble pretext of curtailing child pornography. Read More »

The vicious practice of imposing unilateral political and economic restrictions, especially the extraterritorial application of such measures, is an infringement on the sovereignty of states and interference in their internal affairs aimed at keeping, at any cost, their dominant position in the global economy and international politics, which they are gradually losing.  Read More »

As the people of England and Wales celebrate the end - or at least the beginning of the end - of the COVID restrictions that have stifled the economy for more than a year, new data from the Office of National Statistics have illustrated a startling conclusion: nearly 25% of registered COVID-19 deaths actually aren't being killed by the virus, something that we have been discussing here at Zero Hedge since we first pointed out that motorcycle accident deaths were being labeled "COVID deaths" in Florida. Read More »

Russia looks with amazement at the situation in Europe which locks up its citizens, and it is Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who during an official trip to China today summed up the official feeling of Russia with regard to the confinement measures by wearing a superb mask where it is indicated "FCKNG QRNTN". In good English "Fucking quarantine", and in good French "J'emmerde la quarantaine"! Read More »

In an open letter to the EU Commission with the title Joint Letter: Reshaping the European Fiscal Framework, on February 17, 2021, a coalition of left-wing and green politicians, think tanks, and trade unions unsurprisingly led by George Soros made an appeal for a permanent common EU budget with the possibility of borrowing to support investments that advance the Green Deal and other pharaonic projects. Read More »

The World Food Program (WFP) said in a statement on Tuesday that four of its staff members that survived the attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in which three people were killed, including the Italian Ambassador, are safe. Read More »

Moscow’s pivot to Asia to build Greater Eurasia has an air of historical inevitability that has the US and EU on edge.  Read More »

The European Union supports efforts to return the United States to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and urges Iran to fully comply with its obligations, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in a statement. Read More »