October, 2021

• 7 October

  EU Credibility In Western Balkans Undermined? – Analysis

  The EU and Western Balkans countries summit scheduled to take place on 5 and 6 October 2021 in Brdo pri Kranj, Slovenia is a part of strategic cooperation between the European Union and Western Balkans. The European Union was established as a peace project after the end of World War …

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• 7 October

  O mundo numa relação abusiva com a política e a finança

  É importante ter noção que sem uma revolta global contra este estado de coisas os políticos não serão levados a agir, mesmo quando estamos à beira de uma crise e precisaremos de muito dinheiro para a evitar. Quando no ano de 2016 foram revelados os Panama Papers, uma fuga de …

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• 7 October

  Pandora Papers: pod lupą bogacze, politycy, celebryci. Co to zmieni?

  W największym śledztwie w historii dziennikarstwa pojawiają się nazwiska byłych i obecnych przywódców politycznych, wpływowych biznesmenów, monarchów i celebrytów. Pozostaje pytanie, czy te publikacje cokolwiek zmienią. Od niedzieli piszą na ten temat największe serwisy informacyjne. Ujawnienie wyników śledztwa Pandora Papers, nad którym pracowało ponad 600 dziennikarzy ze 117 krajów, wywołało …

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• 7 October

  Lavrov, Shoukry discuss solutions to regional crises in Moscow

  Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, have discussed developments in several regional issues, including the Renaissance Dam project and the crises in Libya and Syria, at a meeting in Moscow. Shoukry said the talks covered efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and strengthening the two-state …

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• 7 October

  Will Iraq’s Early Elections Solve Its Legitimacy Crisis?

  

  What’s at stake in Iraq’s elections on 10 October? These elections are the first test of Iraq’s political institutions since countrywide protests paralysed the country in 2019-2020. Those protests forced the government elected in 2018 to step down and pass a new elections law, which brought the polls originally planned …

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• 7 October

  Big Pharma Fights Back

  The Democrats have proposed paying for part of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan with $500 billion in savings on what the government will pay prescription drug companies through Medicare and other public programs over the next decade. The country currently pays the pharmaceutical industry over $500 billion annually for …

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• 7 October

  Inside the Pandora Papers

  The Pandora Papers, a massive expose about the secret shell games and tax avoidance schemes of the world’s ultra-wealthy, has just hit headlines around the globe. See initial coverage here in The Washington Post and The Guardian. This colossal undertaking involved 600 journalists from 117 countries and was coordinated by …

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• 7 October

  The CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange in London is a Story that is Being Mistakenly Ignored

  Three years ago, on 2 October 2018, a team of Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The purpose of the killing was to silence Khashoggi and to frighten critics of the Saudi regime by showing that it would pursue and punish them as though …

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• 6 October

  China’s Growing Maritime Empire

  

  While on the face of it, China’s acquisitions of ports looks like mere commercial transactions based on an economically driven agenda — the rhetoric China is employing — several analysts have pointed out that geopolitical concerns seem to be what are actually driving China’s port investments. “A deliberate military and …

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• 6 October

  Más tensión en el mercado del gas

  

  A la hora de señalar a los principales productores de gas del mundo de inmediato se nombran los yacimientos de los que Rusia dispone o los existentes en el norte de África, especialmente en territorio argelino. Suele así olvidarse que existe otro actor de gran peso en este mercado al …

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