The EU authorities will not extend the existing agreement with Switzerland on the "equivalence" of the country's stock exchanges to the EU standards, and the Swiss authorities are not ready to sign a new agreement. Following the meeting of the European Commission on Tuesday, June 18, representatives of the EC noted the "lack of progress" in negotiations with the Swiss authorities to conclude a...

The former main center-right party of France The Republicans is experiencing a severe crisis. The lost presidential and then the European elections threatens its very existence. The catastrophe in the elections to the European Parliament continued a series of failures experienced by the main center-right party of France, The Republicans. Before that, the party missed its chance in the 2012...

On Thursday, British conservative parliamentarians were electing their party leader and, accordingly, the prime minister of Great Britain. It was possible to weed out three outsiders, and the remaining seven will continue to fight for the post of Head of Government in the next rounds until the end of July. The favorite of this race is Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and the former...

Sara Netanyahu is accused of embezzling state funds in restaurants. The wife of the Israeli prime minister was ordered to pay €14 thousand to the treasury. Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, must pay the equivalent of almost €14,000 to the Israeli treasury for ordering expensive meals. The corresponding agreement between Sara Netanyahu and the country's...

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide in the world have increased by 2% in a year. This is the maximum rate over the past 7 years, which can be explained by a record demand for electricity in the world, according to BP’s annual review of world energy. If the situation does not change, the pace of global warming will double. Primary energy consumption grew at a rate of 2.9% last year, almost...

Inability and unwillingness of the Italian authorities to curb the growing debt are forcing the EU to initiate a disciplinary procedure in the amount of €3.5 billion. A report of the European Commission notes that this step is necessary, since Italy has not been successful in reducing debt. Brussels hopes to weaken the position of euro-skeptic and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. At the...

The USA stopped the actual most-favoured-nation status for India exactly on the day of the beginning of re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new term. The story is extremely interesting for a variety of reasons. To start, it destroys the cherished diplomacy of Narendra Modi, expressed as: “We are a special country, we stay away from the superpowers conflict (for example, the United States...

About three million people live in territories controlled by the opposition in the Syrian province of Idlib. According to the UN, this figure includes about a million children and the same number of people who previously fled there from other regions of the country. For several weeks now, the Russian and Syrian air forces have been bombing this province in northwestern Syria every day. “We are...

Large countries are predisposed to a higher level of corruption, concluded researchers of the World Bank (WB), who analyzed data from surveys of entrepreneurs. The World Bank recommends large states to monitor activities of officials stricter, and to punish corrupt officials more severely. Having issued such an ambiguous recommendation, the WB experts admitted that they could not explain the...