Price increases in the European Union countries reached a five-year high: inflation amounted to 2.1 percent in July this year, reports Eurostat. These are already adjusted data, confirming the first predictions of economists. Thus, the EU statistical office marked a record of the last five and a half years (the last time inflation was higher was in December 2012). The achieved level slightly...

The ceasefire between the US and the DPRK turned out to be short-lived. The situation is gradually returning to the former regime of confrontation, it seems from the last steps of Washington and Pyongyang. Yesterday, the South Korean government confirmed that it is considering a possibility of resuming joint military exercises with the United States off the coast of the DPRK, as the Pentagon...

There is a first loss in the government of President Emmanuel Macron, The Minister of Ecology, Nicolas Hulot, is resigning. He made his statement live on radio during an interview with the France Inter. The departure of Mr. Hulot becomes a new sign of the government's shift to the right. When officials say they quit Twitter, it does not surprise anyone, but what the Minister of Ecology and the...

Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Italian party Northern League, which is part of the ruling coalition together with the populist Five Star Movement, and concurrently the head of the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs, once again went to the warpath. He is fighting with the ships of human rights organizations that swim the Mediterranean, rescue migrants trying to get from Libya to Europe...

Mexico may stop oil auctions for at least two years. The President of Mexico also intends to review the already concluded contracts. According to the Wall Street Journal, the elected president of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will suspend oil auctions for at least two years. Some experts believe that his administration will not conduct any new oil auctions at all during the entire six-year...

258,900 immigrants arrived in France on a permanent basis in 2016. 10.8% of them came for economic reasons (against 38% in the context of family reunification). Economic immigrants from non-European countries mainly come from the United States, Morocco and Tunisia. Among Europeans, it is mainly about the Portuguese, the British and the Spaniards. A few weeks ago, Poland stated that it would like...

In mid-July, the European Commission announced another penalty on Google. Its size caused everyone to shudder: the company will have to pay $ 5 billion. This severe decision was taken by Margrethe Vestager, whose five-year tenure as the main defender of competition in the position of Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Commission of the European Union was marked by a ruthless attitude towards the...

The united Europe reacted to a new deterioration in relations between Turkey and the United States with a poorly concealed optimism. Brussels clearly wants to not miss the opportunity to improve relations with Ankara, which were badly spoiled in recent years, especially after the coup attempt in Turkey in 2016. In recent days, when the US-Turkish relations were aggravated by serious problems with...

The first major crack in five years appeared in the Chinese "The Belt and Road Initiative". The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohamad, announced yesterday during a visit to Beijing that the Chinese projects in his country will be frozen. His predecessor, Najib Razak, signed agreements related to these projects with China. According to the country’s government, Chinese loans have placed...