Why is Ukraine still welcome at Eurovision? Extremely bad look, to invite a genocidal nazi country to your... 'Festival of togetherness', ig. Guess all of Europe is a collaborating entity.
Slowing down in the production of goods and services, measured by GDP growth, is typically not seen as desirable as it represents economic stagnation that can lead to various negative consequences. These include inflationary pressures due to increased cost of production inputs without a corresponding increase in output, higher unemployment rates, reduced government revenue due to decreased business activity, decreased investor confidence leading to market volatility and limited access to capital for businesses, increased debt burden on the government limiting social programs and infrastructure investment.
That doesn't mean you can't run an economy that's not based on growth, but Europe operates under capitalism, and these are the problems capitalist economies tend to see when growth slows down.
A London surgeon who has provided testimony over the current war in Gaza after operating during the conflict has been denied entry to France, where he was due to speak in the French senate later on Saturday.
After arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris on Saturday morning on a flight from London, Prof Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, was informed by French authorities that Germany had enforced a Schengen-wide ban on his entry to Europe.
Raymonde Poncet Monge, the Europe Écologie-Les Verts senator who organised the conference, said she condemned the police action and said they had contacted the office of the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, in an attempt to allow Abu-Sitta entry without success.
This is a new step in the repression of everything to do with Palestine,” said Poncet Monge, who later posted a photograph of Abu-Sitta attending the conference via video.
This follows their action taken on 12 April to bar Dr Abu-Sitta’s entry to Berlin to participate in the Palestine Congress – an event which German police later disbanded.”
Israel denies it has committed war crimes in Gaza and says it is acting in self-defence after Hamas’s 7 October attack.
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France’s economy minister Bruno Le Maire says he wants to slash the country’s multi-trillion euro debt, starting by launching the 2024 budget plan he introduced in September.
Together with Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Belgium, it’s one of the EU and euro area countries whose debt is higher than 100% of their respective GDP.
French authorities, like governments across the world, have spent huge sums of public money to counterbalance the negative effects of several crises.
The most recent example of this is the energy and cost of living crises sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which prompted swathes of public spending to cushion the damage to households and the economy, but also the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis.
A significant part of it is reimbursed through people’s savings and life insurance – like in Japan, the developed nation with the highest debt (above 250% of its GDP).
France is still considered trustworthy by financial rating agencies: In spite of several social crises and episodes of violence, its relative political stability and credibility thanks to honouring past reimbursements mean the country is attractive to investors – including those who can lend money.
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Germany's military has admitted on Saturday a flaw in the video-conferencing tool it uses left thousands of its meetings publicly accessible online.
Zeit Online reported accessing German Bundeswehr meetings by using simple search terms on the military"s Webex system.
The Bundeswehr is already on the defensive after audio of air force officials discussing giving Ukraine long-range missiles was leaked by Russians online in March.
In the latest incident Zeit Online said it detected meeting rooms used by 248,000 German soldiers.
Reporters were able to find the online meeting room of Air Force Chief Ingo Gerhartz, whose name came up during the earlier breach.
Zeit Online said that the military only became aware of the security flaws after they approached them for comment.
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Evading conscription for a defensive war is disgraceful. To then turn around and say you love your country is a slap in the face to everyone who is currently fighting and who has fought.
I'm sure Anton would argue disgraceful is better than dead and I don't think I could disagree with that on a personal level.
I have a lot of respect for people who are willing to put their lives on the line for a cause. I'm not one of those people, and I can't shame anyone for finding a way out of it. I'm not willing to die for lines on a map.
You said that evading conscription is disgraceful, implying that people have a duty to die for the regime which is what allows the war to continue. The whole premise is the height of idiocy. People have no obligation to go and die for a western puppet regime in Ukraine.
Men do have a moral duty to fight to defend their country. This does not mean you HAVE to it only means its the moral thing to do (from my own moral perspective).
A moral duty to defend your country if called upon is not what allows the war to continue its the elected leader that gets to decide the war ends. Ukraine isnt calling up conscripts to extend the war, they are calling up conscripts in a response to increased russian troop numbers and to cycle troops off the battlefield so they can rest. Without conscription the war continues but the odds of losing are even higher.
Nope, nobody has any moral duty to defend a regime they don't believe in. Period. The fact that you think people have some moral duty to fight makes you a psychopath. The war is already lost, and prolonging this horror is what's actually immoral. Every single scumbag who advocated for prolonging it has blood on their hands.
Yes people do have a moral to defend their country from invasion regardless of which democratically elected government is currently in power. You are purposefully changing the language, Its not a moral duty to fight its a moral duty to defend.
The war is already lost
Yes I agree, but its not over until the leader decides it is. The only person with blood on their hands is the leaders who continue the war. Because the leader is elected to make decisions on behalf of the people if the leader says men aged 25+ need to enlist then our boy in the article should enlist.
Do you believe at all in civic duty? Do you think people have a societal obligation to follow laws in a democracy?
No, people do not have a moral duty to defend things they don't believe in. The fact that you can't get this through your head is absolutely phenomenal. Blindly following what the leader decides is fascism. You are a fascist.
"Things they don't believe in" is incorrect since the article states he clearly believes in the country of Ukraine and participating in their democracy.
Russian troops in February captured the city of Avdiivka and in recent weeks they have been advancing further in the east of the country, besieging the town of Chasiv Yar.
Ukrainian commanders acknowledge Moscow has more troops, but say the decisive factor is its superior artillery, as well as war planes, used to pound defences.
The mobilisation age was reduced from 27 to 25 and, from 18 May, draft evaders can lose their driving licence and have their bank accounts frozen and property seized.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, admitted that few were likely to come home but he said it was a symbolic move as “guys in the trenches are very tired” while their counterparts in the rest of Europe were “sitting in restaurants”.
He moved to a wealthy neighbourhood of Kyiv because draft officers preferred to operate in poorer districts, where it was easier to catch evaders, he said.
Fedir Venislavskyi, a deputy and member of the national security committee, said the number of would-be escapers was smaller than in 2022, when 6 million refugees left.
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