Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, dies at 86 (www.bbc.com)
The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died at the age of 86, Italian media reported on Monday.
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Former Prime Minister of France explains during a recent audition at the French National Assembly that the large majority of foreign interference in France is committed by the Americans. (twitter.com)
Eurozone slips into recession as revised data shows two quarters of economic contraction (www.cnn.com)
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Germany and France in talks about shared railway tickets (www.sueddeutsche.de)
Sorry for the German source, I couldn’t find an English one....
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Why did Sweden sterilise up to 30,000 people against their will? (www.euronews.com)
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976. The first country in Europe to later abolish forced sterilisation was carrying out a policy under which between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised....
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Sweden has 309% private debt to GDP ratio (take-profit.org)
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Authoritarian French regime legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones (www.francetvinfo.fr)
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The EU Is Becoming Cash Strapped (www.thefinancialtrends.com)
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Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire (www.politico.eu)
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That's a truly shocking number: due to inflation, one third of the French have only 100 euros left on the 10th of each month to live for the remaining 20 days of the month (www.bfmtv.com)
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European Union’s Digital Euro May Run on UTXO — Like Bitcoin (blockworks.co)
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25 NATO-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building (apnews.com)
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Only 40% of Slovaks think Russia is primarily responsible for the war in Ukraine; 34% blame the West, and 17% blame Ukraine. Bulgaria shows similar numbers. (lemmy.ml)
www.globsec.org/sites/…/GLOBSEC Trends 2023.pdf
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Yankee Go Home Flyers posted in Oslo (lemmy.ml)
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Poland is marking the 80th anniversary of the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in regions that were under Nazi German occupation, and which are now part of Ukraine. (apnews.com)
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Germany suffered its first recession since the start of pandemic, extinguishing hopes that Europe’s top economy could escape such a fate after the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring. (archive.ph)
Essential EU food items have risen in cost by up to 55% in the past 12 months (archive.ph)
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Ukraine war a critical issue in upcoming elections in Slovakia as Eduard Heger steps down (peoplesdispatch.org)
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Leaked recordings expose shocking state corruption in ‘US governed’ Moldova (thegrayzone.com)
Half of Brits Don't Trust Met Police and Fear Arrest if They Join Peaceful Protests. A Shining Example of Western Democracy in Action. (www.bylinesupplement.com)
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Turns out that despite all the rhetoric, it's not clear how EU could actually decouple from China in practical terms (www.economist.com)
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Priest, scientist on trial in Germany over climate protest (www.cp24.com)
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A powerful image of a village in western Germany being destroyed to expand this coal mine. (twitter.com)
www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/…/index.html