President Joe Biden condemned threats of violence against FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s mansion as “sick,” while calling for increased police funding and an assault weapons ban in Pennsylvania. Making the first of three planned visits in a week to the campaign trail for November’s congressional midterm elections, Biden forcefully denounced people […]
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Biden’s popularity slips (-3%) to 38%
US President Joe Biden’s approval rating fell three percentage points this week, a bad sign for his party, the Democrats, who are preparing for a tough fight in the November 8 midterm elections, an Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of of the Reuters news agency and was broadcast by the latter yesterday Tuesday. A key […]
Soltz and Sanchez agree on connecting the Iberian Peninsula to the European energy grid
The chancellor Olaf Solz and the prime minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez were in favor of the connection of the Iberian Peninsula with the European electricity and natural gas network. “If there was this line, we could cover 30% of Europe’s liquefied natural gas needs,” said Mr Sanchez, who was attending the federal cabinet meeting […]
M. Weber speaks of K. Mitsotakis’ determination towards Erdogan: ‘We will not be blackmailed by those who are outside our borders’
In his statements to journalists, at the headquarters of the Union of Foreign Correspondents in Rome, the president of the European People’s Party, Manfed Weber, referred to the need to observe solidarity in immigration, but also to respect European borders. In more detail, the president of the EPP, responding to a question from APE-MPE, emphasized: […]
Erdogan attack: Greece attacked NATO by ‘locking’ our F-16s with S-300s
“Greece is not our equal or an interlocutor, neither politically, nor economically, nor militarily,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proving once again that Greece is a strong card in his effort to fan and promote the nationalist sentiment of his party’s base ahead of the 2023 elections. Continuing his incendiary speech, on the occasion […]
Erdogan loses more than 10 percentage points in Polis, Ankara and AKP strongholds in Pontus
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is losing voters in the country’s major cities. Compared to the 2018 elections, the AKP’s vote share has fallen by more than 10 percentage points in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, Bursa, the industrial heartland of Kocaeli and the Pontic cities of Trabzon and Rizunda, […]
Olaf Solz: ‘Too fast’ the decisions on a package of relief measures for the citizens
The federal government will “very quickly” take decisions to relieve citizens from the consequences of the energy crisis, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who however emphasized that compared to a few months ago, Germany is today in a much better position in the , regarding the security of natural gas supply. “No one should be left […]
China: On October 16, the Congress of the Communist Party begins
China’s Communist Party (CCP) congress will begin on October 16, the party’s political bureau announced today and state broadcaster CCTV broadcast, a decisive gathering where President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as party chief and so and the country. Unexpectedly, the 69-year-old Xi is expected to be re-elected as the party’s […]
Italy. The center-right and far-right maintain a large lead in voting intention
According to a poll by polling company Swg, conducted for private TV channel La7, Italy’s conservative faction maintains a large lead over the center-left ahead of parliamentary elections on September 25. The extreme right of the Brothers of Italy “convinces” 24.8% of the respondents, the League is at 12.5%, while 7% of the statistical sample […]
Heavy shadow of uncertainty in Turkey ahead of elections
By Kostas Raptis Down but not out: Down but not out kid. He is at the present time, according to an analysis published in the American The National Interest by Sinan Djidi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Tayyip Erdogan, ten months (at most) before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. Uncertainty surrounds […]