5/15 A couple of weeks ago, for example, Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, 〜spoke of the necessity to fend off a “population exchange,” a term often used by white supremacists to argue against Muslim migration. Kurz quickly distanced himself from the comment, though not from Strache./
5/19 Strache goes on to name his purported donors, including Gaston Glock, the Austrian gunmaker. /He described his actions as “dumb” and “irresponsible,” but laid most of the blame on those behind the sting. “It was a carefully planned political assassination, a hit job,” he said.
“Austria’s disgraced ex-Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache could face criminal prosecution in connection with statements he made in a secretly taped video that led to his resignation, according to Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. ”
5/17 The encounter, which lasted six hours, appeared to be a trap for Strache, according to Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche. The woman offered to buy a 50 percent stake in Austria’s Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch it to a pro-FPÖ line. In turn, Strache said he could award her public contracts.
“Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted late Thursday that because Assange exposed evidence of U.S. military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan, he should not be sent to the U.S.”
“Party apparatchiks concluded Philippot's push for France to leave the euro scared away voters, and recommended FN double down on anti-immigrant and French cultural identity messages instead. Philippot said he saw little space for himself in the rebranded party.”
French MEP Florian Philippot launched a challenge to his former ally Marine Le Pen on Sunday, hosting the first major gathering of a new anti-EU movement called the Patriots.〜quit (FN) last year after internal party disputes, said there is “a big demand” for an anti-EU party in French politi
7/22 Freedom House の Andrew Kramer /My support for that legislation is presumably why my name appeared last week on Putin’s list. It took the White House four days to reject the notion of allowing Americans to be interrogated by Russian authorities, even though President Donald Trump(
4/28 “The funny thing is that prime ministers who do not like a political commission, including Mark (Rutte, the Netherlands’ prime minister), always call us right away if they have a political problem at home,” he said.
12/13 German officials say they had hoped to use Nord Stream’s expected demise as a bargaining chip in talks with Poland, /which is dead set against the pipeline. In exchange for backing away from Nord Stream, Berlin wanted Warsaw to drop demands that Germany pay war reparations./