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...

Greece officially left the assistance program. The country was the last of the four euro area states, which received financial support from its neighbors in the monetary union. Almost € 290 billion was invested in the fight against the Greek crisis in just eight years. Now Greece will have to pay its own debts. At the same time, the EU will continue to monitor the progress of the Greek reforms,...

The tragedy in Genoa prompted Europeans to take a closer look at bridges on the continent. A quick overview brought alarming results: the state of the transport infrastructure in the Old World and, first of all, the bridges, leaves much to be desired. According to the updated data, 38 people were killed as a result of collapse of the bridge in the Italian Genoa. Moreover, this mournful figure can...

In the coming days, Iran and Syria are going to sign an agreement on strategic partnership. Its last details were discussed this week in Damascus by an Iranian government delegation. Tehran claims a leading role in restoration of the Syrian economy, or, rather, it seeks to protect its investments in this country during the years of military conflict. According to experts, Tehran fears that as the...