By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein 100 years ago, in 1924, after eight months, Adolf Hitler left the prison where he had ended up after attempting a coup d’état the previous year. During his stay in prison, he outlined the first pages of his work “My Struggle” in which he explained some basic foundations of his thought, including the exacerbation of extreme ...
Europeans looking for an alternative What impact did the economic situation have on the election results? The economic situation has had a significant impact on the results of the European elections. Economic hardships, such as the rising cost of living, rising energy prices and financial pressure on sectors such as agriculture, have influenced voter behavior. Many citizens, feeling the weight ...
By Kıvanç Özdal The Rassemblement National received 31.4% of the votes in France in the last European Parliament election, while Macron’s Renaissance party gained only 15.2 percent. After the results, Macron announced the decision of dissolving of the National Assembly. New elections will be held on June 30. So French politics is now open to new, and maybe surprising, developments. ...
By Jörg Kronauer Is the debate about nuclear armament in the EU moving into the next round? There are some indications that this is the case. Last week, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda declared that his country was prepared to station US nuclear weapons on its territory. On Friday evening, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said that France was offering to ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen The drums of war are beating louder in Europe. Countries are trying to strengthen their armies. However, far from achieving their targets of increasing the number of soldiers, many countries are facing resignations. Young people are reluctant to join the military. Calls from NATO leaders for a Crusade-like mobilization against Russia are falling on deaf ears. ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen For almost a month, European farmers have been taking to the streets with their tractors, agricultural vehicles and machinery. Started in Germany and then spread to France and other EU countries. French farmers occupied highways with their tractors, blocking transportation for ten days, especially at the entrances to major cities such as Paris and Lyon. They ...
The Schiller Institute has organized on July 8 and 9 an international conference titled “On the Verge of a New World War – European Nations Must Cooperate” in Strasbourg, France. Several politicians and scholars from a wide range of countries participated, and UWI will present a number of selected speeches from the conference. We start our series with the opening ...
The approach that the Ukraine conflict has been instigated by the US to detach Europe from Russia and, thus Asia, is gaining wider acceptance day by day. The US, by stirring turmoil in Ukraine, a convergence point of Europe and Asia, aimed in the short term to hinder Eurasian integration and in the long-term China’s extension to Europe through Eurasia. ...
by Yiğit Saner, reporting from Rome / Italy The energy crisis in Europe, a consequence of the geopolitical developments of recent years, together with the increase in the prices of fossil fuels and the expectation of filling the energy deficit with sustainable energy, force the Old Continent on the one hand to find new markets and, on the other, to ...
Inflation in Germany in October exceeded expectations and hit a new record of 10.4 percent, driven by high increases in energy and food. More than 200,000 workers took part in warning strikes and protests at factories in the metal and electricity industries last week. Germany’s largest labor union in the automotive and electrical sectors, IG Metall, responded to employers’ resistance ...