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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Breaking News
Turkish authorities issue detention warrants for 118 military, security personnel over suspected Gulen links

Turkey issued detention warrants for 118 people, mostly members of the military and security forces, who are suspected of links to the network that Ankara says was behind a 2016 coup attempt. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said Tuesday that detention warrants had been issued for 42 military and gendarmerie personnel as a result of statements...

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Politics
Mexican president defies leftist label in virus response

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico's presidency after years of agitating for change, many expected a transformative leader who would take the country to the left even as much … Click to Continue »

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Politics
As Liverpool FC’s footballers take the knee, all hail the champions of hollow gestures and virtue signalling

Everyone, it seems, wants to show solidarity with George Floyd. But the image of Liverpool's players paying tribute smacked of a club desperate to do the right thing after past missteps. The aftershocks of George Floyd's death are still ricocheting in all sorts of directions. And throwing their hat into the ring to be part...

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Breaking News
EU says Russia should not be readmitted to G7 summit

The European Union has joined a growing chorus of members of the Group of Seven major economic powers to insist that Russia must not be allowed back into the fold, after US President Donald Trump said that he plans to invite the country to a G7 summit next autumn.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Breaking News
German govt may swap EU travel warning for softer guidelines this week, FM Maas says

The German cabinet will on Wednesday discuss a resolution on downgrading the travel warnings currently in force for EU countries and several other associated states into softer guidelines, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said. “We are preparing a resolution for the cabinet tomorrow, which is still being agreed within the government,” Maas told reporters on...

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 June 2020 | Politics
The EU’s eye-wateringly expensive Covid-19 rescue plan is likely to only widen the trench between North and South

Brussels has put forward a €750 billion scheme aimed at averting an internal split that could endanger the euro and imperil the whole European project. But it's fraught with danger and far from certain to work. The EU Commission has proposed a €750 billion reconstruction plan. The so-called “Instrument for Reconstruction and Resilience” is at...

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