Today’s events in Ukraine show that the trial of Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of the Opposition Platform – For Life political party, the country’s largest opposition force, is yet another proof that political instruments are used in the current Ukrainian government’s fight against its critics. This is an alarming signal from Ukraine, because in a short period of time, new …

The days of unrest in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip reached a boiling point on Monday evening, when Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement fired rockets at each other. What’s going on in the area? And why is it restless again? The causes of the escalating violence are a difficult tangle to unravel. In essence, the current protests are being …

The European Commission is concerned about the detention of EU citizens in deportation centres in the UK. In particular, the situation and the long duration of detention are “a source of concern”, the commission says. Some 30 Germans, Italians and other EU citizens who wanted to return the UK were detained at the British border for up to seven days, …

Solar Team Twente will participate in the Solar Challenge Morocco in October, an alternative to the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia. The University of Twente announced this on Friday. The Solar Challenge Morocco was created because the Australian Solar Car race was cancelled due to the coronavirus. The organisation of the World Solar Challenge announced in February that the …

Société Générale expects bad loan provisions to be significantly lower this year, after a favourable first quarter, with the best result in years for the international banking division of the French bank. This was shown on Thursday by figures from the French bank. The net profit of 814 million euros can be compared to the loss of 326 million a …

Multimillionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are getting divorced, they announce on Twitter on Monday. The couple had been married for 27 years. The founder of software company Microsoft and his wife say they have thought long before making the decision. After the divorce, the couple plans to continue working together in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the …

The euro area economy contracted slightly less in the first quarter. This was shown on Friday by figures from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union. Gross domestic product fell by 0.6 percent on a quarterly basis in the first quarter, compared to a minus of 0.7 in the previous quarter. The market expected a decline of 0.8 percent. …

Deutsche Bank recorded more profit in the first quarter of 2021, with annual income also increasing significantly. This was announced by the German investment bank on Wednesday morning. “The first quarter shows that Deutsche Bank is on the right track with all four core activities and is building on sustainable profitability,” said CEO Christian Sewing in a statement. In the …

More than 146.8 million Covid-19 infections have been recorded worldwide. This is evident on Monday from current data collected by Johns Hopkins CSSE. The number of Americans carrying the coronavirus today recorded over 32.0 million infections and 572,200 deaths. India and Brazil now have 17.0 million and over 14.3 million infections respectively. In Western Europe, France has the highest number …

Rémy Cointreau has seen an autonomous increase in turnover in the last financial year, which ran until March 2021, and expects an increase of approximately 10 percent for operating result. This was shown by the turnover figures announced by the French distiller on Friday. Turnover was autonomously 1.8 percent higher at just over a billion euros. On a reported basis, …