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Bolsonaro’s Brazil: a dwarf on the international scene – 07/29/2021 – World
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At present, there is hardly a Democratic head of government who wishes to meet with Jair Bolsonaro. In the European Union, the Brazilian president is cautiously avoided, because that would not please voters. Even fans of Briton Boris Johnson should not have a very good opinion of Bolsonaro, known abroad mainly for two things: the devastation of the Amazon rainforest and his catastrophic handling of the pandemic, with more than 550,000 Brazilians dead.
Since no one wants to meet Bolsonaro, he accepts what comes. In this case, it was Beatrix von Storch, MP and deputy spokesperson for the ultra-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). This is not a normal party: the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – a kind of German Abin – has raised suspicion that the acronym would harbor extremists and pose a threat to the democratic order, even placing it under the surveillance of the secret services.

Deutschland sei teilweise erschreckend rückständig, sagt FDP-Generalsekretär Volker Wissing. Quelle: imago images/photothek
FDP-Generalsekretär Wissing: „Wir haben die Modernisierung unserer Strukturen verpasst“
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Berlin. Herr Wissing, Sie kommen aus Rheinland-Pfalz, wo die Hochwasser-Katastrophe mit Abstand die meisten Toten gefordert hat. Was macht das mit Ihnen?
Die betroffene Region kenne ich sehr gut, umso schmerzhafter ist es, miterleben zu müssen, was ihr widerfahren ist. Menschen haben Angehörige, Freunde, ihr Haus, ihr Eigentum verloren. Viele vermissen immer noch ihre Angehörigen, Trauer und Verzweiflung sind präsent. Gleichzeitig muss eine unglaubliche Aufbauarbeit geleistet werden. Das ist ein Schicksalsschlag, der gar nicht in Worte zu fassen ist.

by Paul Haeder / July 29th, 2021
Interrogate the devil; he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws and a tail.
— Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary
This is what real education looks like — Evo Organizes Anti-Imperialist Day School For Youth
Iris Varela spoke about the history of the Bolivarian Revolution and explained in detail how the economic blockade in her country works. The PSUV lawmaker concluded with an invitation for participants to visit Venezuela for the inauguration of a similar project in Caracas; “we’re opening a university to teach people reporting and social media skills, we’re cordially inviting the youth of the union federations in Chapare to come and coordinate an exchange with the Juventud PSUV, maybe in August a group can come here, and a group from here can go there. Our Bolivian brothers will always be welcome to the country of father liberator, Simon Bolivar. We need to strengthen education and build cadres who can defend revolutionary processes.”

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Für Olaf Scholz war es ein gelungener Abend: Beim Talk des Magazins „Brigitte“ parierte der SPD-Kanzlerkandidat am Mittwoch freundlich lächelnd alle Fragen. Er zeigte sich als Mensch mit Emotionen, warb für sein politisches Programm und griff die Union scharf an. So rund lief der Auftritt des SPD-Mannes, dass im Willy-Brandt- Haus wohl die Sektkorken knallten.
Auf jeden Fall nutzte der Finanzminister die Gelegenheit, seine Stärken ins Licht zu stellen, zu der vor allem seine zupackende Art und seine Erfahrung in Spitzenämtern gehören – ein wichtiges Pfund in einer Zeit, in der sich mit Pandemie und Flut die Krisen häufen. Da Angela Merkel nicht weitermacht, so lautet das Kalkül der SPD, werden die Wählerinnen und Wählern von allen drei Kandidaten am Ende am ehesten ihm zutrauen, Sicherheit und Stabilität zu garantieren.

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IN OR OUT? Poland, already brawling with the EU’s top court, on Thursday started mulling whether to pick a fight with the European Court of Human Rights next (more here). And thus, the government again highlighted a special EU insider/outsider problem: It’s safe to say that neither Hungary nor Poland would be admitted to the EU were they to apply now, given the shape of their institutions, checks and balances.
New tools: The EU looks closely and thoroughly at those it admits into what is a legal community (and at the moment, it is refusing to start doing even that with the next batch of candidate countries). The fact it would remain a legal community even in the event it became a single-market-only Union is a no-brainer. But how Brussels can discipline those who have made it into the club for deviations from its minimum standard is an unresolved question — the EU has invented various procedures to protect the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in its member countries, with mixed success.

Which parties will form the next German government? Estimating exactly how many MPs each party will get — and how many will be needed for a majority — is not easy due to Germany’s complex method of allocating seats. That method means even the total number of seats in the next parliament is uncertain. But some pollsters are bold enough to project seat numbers for each party — and the threshold for a majority.
Key issues
What’s driving those overall trends in voting intention?
Parties can benefit if voters think they have a strong response to an important issue: For example, the surge in voter concern over migration in 2018 was correlated with a poll hike for the far-right AfD party. Likewise, higher support for the Greens in 2019 came at a time of increased concern over climate change.

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Ukraine ruling party leader Davyd Arakhamia expects that the upcoming meeting of President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Joe Biden would be a 'heated one'.
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As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden set to meet in Washington over the 
Nord Stream 2 project, Ukrainian ruling party leader Davyd Arakhamia prophesied that the meeting would be a heated one. The statement from Arakhamia came after Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel affirmed that the 'compromised deal' between her and the US President Joe Biden is 'good for Ukraine.'

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Prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda pakvietė Vyriausybės vadovę Ingridą Šimonytę bei partijų vadovus susitarti dėl bendrų užsienio politikos principų. Apie šį susitikimą – pokalbis su politologe Rima Urbonaite laidoje „Info diena“.
„Pati užsienio politika, kuri yra formuojama ir įgyvendinama prezidento kartu su Vyriausybe, atrodo, turi kryptį. Aš manau, kad prezidentas pamatė problemą ne tame, kad mes prarandame šitą kryptį, nes akivaizdu, kad pirmiausia čia jo paties yra funkcija, čia jo žodis yra vienas iš svariausių kartu su užsienio reikalų ministru. Bet jis pamatė problemą, kad viduje mes pradedame nekalbėti tarsi unisonu, kokia ta užsienio politika turėtų būti. Štai Ramūnas Karbauskis staiga tampa užsienio politikos ekspertu, kur lyg niekada nekišdavo nosies. O dabar jau sako, kad mūsų užsienio politika yra netinkama, kalba apie kažkokį bendravimą su Minsku per aplinkui, nors nieko nepasako, kaip tai turėtų atrodyti praktiškai. Ir tada apie ką su Minsku mes turime kalbėti. Nes čia svarbu pasakyti ne tai, kad tu turi kalbėti, svarbu apie ką tu kalbėsi“, – kalbėjo politologė.