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October 15, 2019
Orban’s humiliating Budapest defeat
Hungary’s controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered a shock political defeat. His Fidesz party’s two-term mayor of the capital Budapest, Istvan Tarlos, was ousted in elections at the weekend. It represents an important first-ever check for the increasingly authoritarian Orban, who clearly imagined his racist blockade of migrants and his barely-disguised Islamophobia continued to be widely popular.Fidesz mayors were ousted from ten of the 23 cities in which votes ...
October 14, 2019
Tunisia’s new president
Tunisians have become so fed up with the bickering politicians that they have elected since they triggered the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, that they have just chosen a president who is the complete antithesis of a political animal.Indeed the country’s new head of state, Kais Saied, a 61-year-old retired constitutional law professor, is so lacking in charisma and charm that even loyal supporters happily describe him variously as “Robot” ...
October 11, 2019
Dealing with terror
THE murderous assault on a synagogue and a Turkish-owned eatery in the German city of Halle are both being blamed on a far-right extremist. Two people died in a hail of gunfire. It comes in a week that a suspected Syrian terrorist hijacked a truck in Limburg, near Frankfurt and plowed it into a line of motorists, seriously injuring nine people. Both these crimes were acts of terror, like all ...
October 9, 2019
Bringing down the president
THE cacophony of hatred and vilification launched against President Donald Trump by the US political elite began even before the man sat down for the first time in the Oval Office. And it has not ceased since then, even for a moment. Many of the inhabitants of the Capitol Hill “swamp” that Trump promised to drain loathe their elected president, to the point of distraction. The boom box of social ...
October 8, 2019
Abdul Mahdi’s savage response to protest
More than 16 years ago, US President George W. Bush, relying on entirely phony evidence that Saddam Hussein still possessed weapons of mass destruction, led the invasion of Iraq and Saddam’s ouster. The consequences of this regime change have proved utterly disastrous. Regional peace was undermined by Al-Qaeda and Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorists’ campaigns which sprang into being amidst the wreckage of the old regime. Regional stability was overthrown ...
October 8, 2019
Turkey welshes on EU asylum deal
IN March 2016, Turkey made a deal with the European Union. It would curtail the flow of migrants to Greece, which by 2015 had passed one million. In return Ankara accepted $3.3 billion from Brussels, which it was supposed to be devoting to the care of the 3.5 million largely Syrian migrants it was hosting. The EU also agreed to allow Turkish citizens free movement within the borderless Schengen area ...
October 4, 2019
Trump’s new trade war
Trump’s new trade warWHEN China’s President Xi Jinping last week opened Beijing’s Daxing International, the world’s biggest airport, ahead of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Chinese communist party’s coming to power, commentators overlooked one interesting fact. This was that the majority of the civilian airliners that began to use Daxing, was made abroad, predominantly in the United States and Europe.It seems more than certain that in the-not too distant ...
October 3, 2019
Iraq’s menacing militias
WHEN it comes to Iraqi government’s demobilization of its often lawless militias, President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be one step behind events. Mick Mulroy, soon to depart from Trump’s Defense Department team has said Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi must press on with plans he announced at the start of July to bring an end to the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs).In fact it looks as if Mahdi has succumbed ...
October 2, 2019
Turkey’s mood is changing
MANY Turks are worried and angry. Their country seems to be changing for the worse. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arguably their most remarkable politician since the Republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, is no longer the sure-footed leader who took power 17 years ago. The man who dared to make peace with Kurdish rebels, who restored language, cultural and political rights to this significant majority, who promised an inclusive politics led ...
October 1, 2019
Austria not entirely right
THE political news from Austria is not all bad. Yes, the right-wing, anti-immigrant conservative party of Sebastian Kurz has actually increased its electoral support winning the most votes; but the brazenly Islamophobic Freedom Party, the former governing coalition partner of Kurz’s People’s Party, saw its vote drop sharply.It was a video exposing the sleaze and payola of the Freedom Party’s then leader Heinz-Christian Strache that brought about this snap general ...
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