German-Polish relations have been in a crisis, and the climate just keeps getting uglier, as exemplified by recent developments. For instance, Alice Weidel, spokesperson for Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany’s third-strongest political force today, called in a tweet the area of former East Germany a “Central Germany” – thus implying that territories which today belong to Poland are German […]
Following what appears to be emerging as a new European trend, Paris has published a report that deems Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party as a “communication channel for Russia”. Le Pen was questioned for 4 hours and described it as a witch trial. This provides a convenient scapegoat while France is facing major protests […]
By Democracy Now! Decades of reckless oil drilling by Chevron have destroyed 1,700 square miles of land in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but the company has refused to pay for the damage or clean up the land, despite losing a lawsuit 10 years ago, when Ecuador’s Supreme Court ordered the oil giant to pay $18 billion […]
