Ukraine Yanukovych crumbles in the blood, the hard-line dictator does not hold the push -European and shipwrecked on the barricades of the unemployed, students, workers, clerks, but most practitioners of urban guerrilla warfare.
All united and organized militarily against a man, a political party, a culture still too tied to the models of repression of the East.
On February 25, should be completed on a national unity government , the new prime minister is appointed interim Oleksandr Turchynov , right-hand man and most faithful of Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the orange uprising in 2004.
The protests in Ukraine started at the end of November exactly November 21 when President Yanukovych has arbitrarily set aside a long-awaited trade agreement that would " depth " ties with the EU and called on the contrary to what the people wanted , greater support to Russia. This sparked a series of popular demonstrations pro EU have gradually increased in number and intensity.
Moscow is going to finance about the 80% of the costs[1] of the construction of two new nuclear reactors (out of a total of four old reactors) in the Hungarian Paks nuclear power plant (town close to Budapest). This is the gist of the agreement that Russian president Vladimir Putin and Hungarian prime minister Victor Orban signed last week, concluding a negotiation that the two countries had started in 2009. According to such agreement, Moscow is going to lend up 13,7 billion dollars[2] (about 10 billion euros) which will be used by MVM Group (state company owner of the facility) in order to increase the power plant productivity, power plant that now provides about 40% of the national needs.
Occupied and subjugated several times over the last century , Poland is now one of the most virtuous nations of the European continent, with its economy growing, since 1989, 177% , the only one never to have experienced periods of recession.
The origins of this real "miracle" to be found, in my opinion, the conviction with which the ruling class Polish prevailing after the collapse of the Soviet regime brought forward structural policies for the transformation of the planned economy, which at that time characterized the economic life of all countries orbiting in Moscow, in a market economy.
On last 30 of September, the first sample of the new Airbus A400M took its first flight over Seville skies. It’s a flying colossus, a strategic transport aircraft jointly designed by European industrial companies EADS and Airbus. Among all countries that ordered this new aircraft (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Spain and United Kingdom) France is the first beneficiary.
While the EU continues to talk about austerity, populism and deficit, among the 28 members of the Union, there are some countries that, silently, could surprise us all: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, in fact, are four nations that, despite the present economic crisis forces many governments to review their balance sheets, continue to collect not simply economic successes , but political ones.
It’s not by chance that many big corporations among the most important in the world, such as Audi, IBM or Mercedes-Benz, have decided to inaugurate their new productive branches in the area that, from Tychy, reaches Budapest.
From politics to the media-world: “fights” on Snowden’s revelations are spreading all around. That’s what is happening in the UK in the last couple of months, where a kind of a quarrel came up between the right-winger headline The Daily Mail and the politically independent The Guardian. At the same time the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) was dragged to the dock by Snowden’s revelations published on The Guardian accusing the agency of having supported US espionage activities by controlling Italian government and its citizen’s communications, The Daily Mail began a harsh campaign against The Guardian guilty of providing a handbook to potential terrorists willing to harm Great Britain. In an ironic drawing, The Daily Mail pictured a newspaper seller handing out a copy of The Guardian to a man wearing a balaclava and, on the newspaper table, an advertisement says: “The Guardian – Secrets of MI5 and CGHQ – read all about it”. On its side, The Guardian has received support from many international headline editors asserting that what The Guardian has been doing is a clear expression of democracy end a clear example of freedom of speech and expression principle.
It has been considered as a “historical day”, that of the past November 13th, when, in Brussels, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, and Geert Wilders, undisputed head of the Hague–based controversial PVV – Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party For Freedom), which caused a heated debate because of its strong anti–Islamism and its clear–cut stances on a limitation of the immigration flows in the Netherlands, have met to stipulate a strategic alliance among eurosceptic political parties to better approach the European Parliament elections, expected for the next spring.
Local elections in Slovakia are recently concluded and after the disappointing election results recorded, the country has already begun to question the outcome of the same, two factors have amazed the Slovak political class: hand, the landslide victory of abstentionism, always a sign of distrust of the leadership of the country and lack of attention in the political life of the nation (only 20% of eligible voters went to the polls), and second, the equally overwhelming "victory" in the region of Banska Bystrica of Marian Kotleba, leader of Ľudová Strana Naše Slovensko, ultra-nationalist party of the extreme right that has got to be known for his radical stances on issues such as immigration and Rom.
Snowden cyclone has been hitting European and Euro-Atlantic political relationships again in the last few weeks, and the Great Britain found herself in the middle of it. The political atmosphere started becoming really tense when Snowden affirmed that French, German, Italian government and about other thirty world political leaders have been spied by the NSA; but it got even worse since, according to the latest revelations as the Daily and Sunday Express reported, British 007s have been cooperating with US secret services in gathering data form the Italian government and phone and spying on Italian citizens phone and internet traffic on a huge scale. Simultaneously the BBC impartially claimed that such wiretapping were just a little piece of a greater security operation called Tempora leaded by the British GCHQ agency (Government Communications Headquarters) linked to the NSA PRISM activities.
