President Tayyip Erdoğan signalled on Saturday (3 June) his newly-elected government would return to more orthodox economic policies when he named Mehmet Şimşek to his cabinet to tackle Turkey’s cost-of-living crisis and other strains. Şimşek’s appointment as treasury and finance minister could set the stage for interest rate hikes in coming months, analysts said –…
French MEP Maxette Pirbakas, a member of the Committee on Regional Development and national president of the Rassemblement pour les français d’Outre-mer (RPFOM), was invited to take part in the monthly programme and discuss the problems facing agriculture in Europe. Hosted by journalist Radouan Bachiri, the programme aims to discuss current affairs within the European…
Giving birth is a life or death struggle for women in Afghanistan, where roughly one mother is believed to die every two hours from preventable pregnancy and childbirth complications. Even mothers who survive face the stark reality that their newborns may not, with the Taliban’s Health Ministry estimating 22 children die for every 1,000 live…
“Out of the mountain…came a mouse”, as the French saying goes. Last December, a full chamber and a united Brussels applauded European Parliament president Roberta Metsola’s solemn warning and call to action as the news of the Qatargate scandal broke: “Make no mistake, European democracy is under attack”. Six months later, as institutional inertia and…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 4. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and former Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu have held a telephone conversation, Trend reports via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Azerbaijani FM noted with satisfaction the activities carried out by Mevlut Cavusoglu towards strengthening brotherly and allied relations at a high level between the two countries…
India said an error in electronic signalling was responsible for the nation’s worst train crash in two decades, which killed more than 300 people on Friday. The collision, which happened in the eastern state of Odisha, is said to have occurred when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train and ran into another passing…
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, said on Friday (2 June) he was opposed to any “break” in the green transition, in a thinly-veiled critique of Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “European regulatory break” on environmental constraints. The French president said last month that a break was necessary to help industry digest the standards of the…
American experts from the University of North Carolina found a side effect of eating rice that many people don’t even think about. Unexpected side effect of rice According to scientists, cooked rice can be toxic to the body. If it has been stored at room temperature for a long time, you should not eat it…
Family members of Russian President Vladimir Putin quietly acquired several plots of real estate in Moscow’s tony western suburbs near his residence, where a series of luxury homes have been built, a new investigation found. The findings, by the Russian news site Proyekt, were the latest documenting what some experts believe is a vast, secretive,…
In recent years, European states and international organisations have developed various technologies to detect migration patterns and predict the number of people from third countries seeking asylum in the EU. But doubts have been raised about both the effectiveness and desirability of using predictive technologies to impede migration. Around 2.3 million migrants arrived in the…