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The chairman of the European People s Party (EPP) the largest group in the European Parliament has sharply criticized the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an opinion piece published on December 27 by a German newspaper.
The dismantling of the rule of law, nationalism, or fomenting division are not effective tools to master societal challenges, conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Manfred Weber of Germany wrote in Welt am Sonntag. Immense economic, social, and societal upheavals cannot be mastered with a national-populist political approach or a cultural war, as demanded by Hungary s Prime Minister Orban, Weber said.
Five cheers for 2021
Dec 24,2020 - Last updated at Dec 24,2020
LONDON A lot of chickens came home to roost this year. The COVID-19 pandemic was not some random thunderbolt from out of the blue, but rather a man-made “natural” disaster, holding up a mirror to so many of our bad habits and dangerous, indeed, lethal, practices.
After all, the coronavirus’s transmission from bats to humans was a product of mass urbanisation and destructive encroachment on natural habitats, and its rapid spread was a result of over-industrialisation, frenetic trade, and contemporary travel habits. Likewise, the world’s inability to come together to contain the crisis reflects the extent to which governance capacity lags behind hyper-globalisation.
Europe’s misconceived cohesion
By Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics
BUDAPEST Some details of the midnight budget deal cooked up between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on behalf of the European Union, and the Hungarian and Polish governments remain hidden. Nonetheless, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is celebrating a victory, whereas opposition parties cheer the EU’s newfound willingness to make its funding conditional on member countries’ respect for the rule of law.
But while Orban’s critics see the enacted rule-of-law criterion as an appropriate measure against the patronal autocracy that he has established in Hungary, the fact is that the provision would have fallen far short of what is needed.
France Jan 15, 2020
The bears have cute names Bubble, Feather, Snowflake and the like and look so soft and huggable when caught on video by remote cameras that study their habits. But to herders high in the Pyrenees mountains of southwest France, the animals are stone-cold killers, ravaging flocks and undermining farming livelihoods. Pyrenean livestock farmers who raise sheep for meat and.