The conflict around Catalonia has escalated once again. Yesterday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez assured that if unauthorized actions in support of the autonomy’s independence do not cease, the government will have to bring national, rather than local, security forces, to keep order. The new Prime Minister does not want to follow the example of his predecessor and solve the problem by...

The Yellow Vests protests further hit the rating of French president. The measures to rescue the situation, proposed by him earlier, met with criticism from opposition politicians. Yet, their ratings do not greatly exceed Macron’s figures. A political vacuum has occurred in France, and even unsuccessful political figures are trying to fill the gap. Despite concessions of French President Emmanuel...

British Prime Minister Theresa May decided to postpone the vote on the plan to withdraw from the European Union. It seems that Theresa May is still not an iron lady, no matter how much she wants to be like Margaret Thatcher. According to a Bloomberg source, she nevertheless decided to postpone the decisive Brexit vote. On Tuesday evening, MPs were supposed to approve a plan for the United Kingdom...

The Japanese Parliament on Saturday passed a law that opens the country to low-skilled foreign workers. Previously, the migration flow has been severely limited due to the traditionally negative attitude of Japanese people towards labor migrants. It is expected that about 345 thousand people will arrive in the country in the next five years. The opposition criticized the new law for insufficient...

Bloomberg tried to forecast what will happen after Angela Merkel leaves big politics. Analysts have compiled four possible scenarios. Without exaggeration, Angela Merkel shook the whole of Germany, announcing in October that she was leaving the post of leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Nevertheless, Mrs. Merkel intends to finalize her fourth term as Federal Chancellor, which expires...

Following long negotiations, the Eurogroup agreed to partially strengthen the monetary union within the euro area. In particular, it is proposed to expand the financial stability mechanism and introduce new requirements for the placement of country debt. More significant changes, including the emergence of a general monetary union budget within the framework of the EU financial plan, have not yet...

For the first time in nearly half a century, the ultra-right Spanish party won seats in the regional parliament. The ultra-right wave seems to have reached the extreme south-west of Europe. The ultra-right party Vox, which opposes illegal migrants, abortions and independence of Catalonia, won seats in the regional legislature in the Andalusian regional elections last weekend/ It happened for the...

On Sunday, the regular UN Climate Conference officially opened in the Polish city of Katowice. For the next two weeks, its main task will be to approve rules of the Paris Climate Agreement. The meeting will take place against the background of a rather complicated situation in international green policy: countries are not ready to increase their climate commitments or even intend to abandon them,...

In July, the UN almost unanimously adopted the international migration pact and called it an historic event. However, many are disappointed now. The project is designed exclusively for migrants, and the rights of residents of host countries are completely ignored. Western democracies have long been debating on this topic, and many countries have rejected UN proposals. The pact has already caused...