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Post-Election Turbulence in Georgia: Protests Erupt in Tbilisi, Brussels, Berlin, and Beyond

In these challenging hours, Georgian citizens are dealing with the fallout of disputed elections, fuelling intense political unrest following the disputed parliamentary vote on 26 October 2024, the country’s first fully proportional election for its 150-member Parliament that has been…

In ‘Historic Shift,’ Renewables Overtake Fossil Fuels to Provide 30% of EU Electricity

As renewable energy soars worldwide, solar and wind have overtaken fossil fuels, generating 30 percent of electricity in the European Union during the first half of 2024, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes During the first half of this year, the…

Hungarian Minister: “There will be peace if someone believes in it”.

“Peace will not come automatically, it will be necessary for someone to build it,” said Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, during an appearance on local radio station Kossuth on Friday, referring to the conflict in Ukraine. From: RT. Orbán…

Ukraine: Stop the criminalization of peace and human rights speech  and the prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko,  Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

The undersigned organizations express their deep disappointment and grave concerns about the continuing harassment of peace activists and conscientious objectors, including the obviously arbitrary prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and EBCO Board member, whose…

Interview: Colonel Matos Gomes on the Carnation Revolution

This article is part of the series “50 Years After: Long Live the Carnation Revolution”, published by Pressenza since mid-March 2024. The “Carnation Revolution” of 1974-75 brought freedom to the Portuguese after 48 years of fascism and independence to the…

We won’t have a chance to applaud!

A Europe with a German profile Meanwhile… how has England fared? Are the Russians… out or defeated? Conservatives and socialists The Russian threat NATO prepares for war By Gilberto Lopes “Americans in, Russians out, Germans down”. This is how Lord…

Putin Explains Why Russia Doesn’t Pose a Threat to Europe

Consider the “Potentials,” as Bismarck Advised, Says Putin in Tucker Carlson Interview John V. Walsh Tucker Carlson began his interview of President Vladimir Putin with the words, “On February 24, 2022, you addressed your country in your nationwide address when…

Washington Promotes Opposition Candidate Setting the Stage for Delegitimizing the Venezuelan Presidential Election

Despite continuous US-led hybrid warfare to overthrow the socialist project, this month marks the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro has successfully forced the US to de facto engage with it, although Washington…

Sabotaging EU Pesticide Reduction Law (SUR)

Pesticide industry lobby’s reckless assault on biodiversity and health It is make-or-break time for several urgent key topics under the EU’s Green Deal and its Farm to Fork Strategy. In June this year for example, the Nature Restoration Law became…

APDHA denounces chaos and neglect in Morocco

The Pro Human Rights Association of Andalusia explains that “the Moroccan government is never there and never expected” and that Mohammed VI is “an absolute monarch who despises his people and only works for his own interests”. APDHA points out…

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