EUROPE - MY ONGOING POLITICAL NOTES

  President EMMANUEL MACRON made on April 25, 2024 a very important speech on Europe at the University of Sorbonne.   He presented a range of concrete proposals on how and why to make very important improvements to our European project.  And to do it NOW. You can listen to the speech in English here: REPLAY: French President Macron's speech on the EU • FRANCE 24 English (youtube.com)

                                                                              Peter Magyar  HUNGARY: ORBÁN IN BIG DIFFICULTIES One of Orbán's former strong supporters, the lawyer PETER MAGYAR, has suddenly turned publicly against Orbán and the current government. He wants to found his own party and promote a more EU-positive policy for the country. And he seems to have great and even increasing support among the population. He was previously married to the Minister of Justice, who suddenly had to resign together with the female president in February after a scandalous pardon of a child seducer. Before that, he was for several years in Brussels as an employee at the Hungarian representation at the EU. The government tries to overlook and trivialize him. But it doesn't seem to work. Hi...

  Here are some media that I highly recommend you follow. They are credible and professionally done: URONEWS (follows developments in the EU and Europe continuously from Brussels) POLITICO.EU (German-American media from Brussels. The largest newsroom in Brussels) THE GUARDIAN.COM (the best English newspaper on European affairs) KYIV INDEPENDENT - https://kyivindependent.com - Ukrainian daily newspaper MEDUZA - independent Russian on-line media in English - currently published from Riga in Latvia   e

SWEDEN FINALLY IN NATO Now Sweden finally joined NATO. After a year of waiting, the last NATO country, Hungary, decided to say YES to Swedish membership. The alliance has never been stronger, as US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said the other day. NATO now includes a total of 32 member states, including virtually all countries around the Baltic Sea. And Sweden's role in the alliance will be very important. Partly, with support from the other NATO countries, it can secure the entire Baltic Sea area, not least also from the large, centrally located island, Gotland. In part, the country, with its total of 9,300 km of coastline towards the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea in particular, can play a central role for the security of all of Northern Europe. And partly, Gothenburg and its large port will be a hub for NATO reinforcements both in peacetime and in wartime. In the near future, Sweden will also actively participate in NATO's multinational brigade, located in Latvia. ...

 RUSSIA - AFTER NAVALNY. Yulia Navalnaja The leading Russian opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, 47, has died. Or has been made dead. As you know, the authorities have tried this before. And they won't hand over his body to the family yet. These are not good signs - especially not for a regime of Putin's kind! And the authorities' very harsh treatment of people who just want to lay flowers in Navalny's honor is also a sign of their great nervousness. But as Navalny said on several occasions: If they decide to kill me, then it is a sign that we are strong. And never give up!!   The question is: What happens now? The best and most natural thing would be for the Russian population to take to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest. And not just in one place - but in many, many places. Preferably supported by police officers, soldiers, etc. Then even Putin could probably understand that it is completely crazy. But unfortunately that probably won't ...