NEWS FROM EUROPE

  Ukraine's flag in action Yes, you must ask yourself: Who is the biggest liar?   Putin or Trump ??!! Trump has just "established" that it was Ukraine that started the war in February 2022! It is exactly the Russian one, i.e. Putin's eternal claim.     Everyone knows that it was and is Russia that is the great aggressor.   No one else.    Now it probably won't be long before Trump also runs around with the Russian claim that it is Nazis who rule Ukraine! Similarly with the "feeding" of the media: Trump's former close adviser, Steve Bannon, once said: How do you seduce the media?   You do that by filling them with shit!   As Joseph Goebbels said before him. How long can someone keep supporting Trump??!!  

  The German flag in action Within only four days we will have the general elections in Germany. And the opinion polls seem still to be  very steady since quite some time - despite the recent dramatic political events on the world scene, incl. very improper American interference into the German election campaign. The CDU seems to get 30-32 %. The AfD 20-22 %. SPD 14-16 %. The Greens 14 %. And the left-wing Die Linke 6-7 %  ( which is a surprise ).  The other parties will probably not get the necessary 5 % votes to get into Parliament. Therefore, the probably coation negotiatins for a new government will take place between CDU, SPD and the Greens. There is no obvious sign that AfD has received money from Elon Musk. And there is no sign either that the recent terrorist attacks have been stimulated and coordinated f.ex. from Russia.

  European flag in action EU Europe's Trump strategy was hope – now hope is dead Ole Ryborg, EU correspondent for Danmarks Radio in Brussels February 15, 2025 In four weeks, the United States has gone from being Europe's best friend and ally to being an economic adversary, which has also gone behind the EU countries' backs and started talks with Putin about Ukraine. The EU's 27 member states spend billions on their foreign services, with thousands of diplomats scattered around the world, and the countries also spend enormous sums on civilian and military intelligence services. What both foreign services and intelligence services have in common is that they must collect information to help the countries' political leaders make the decisions that are best for a country's security, democracy and economic well-being. Spread over the 27 EU countries, thousands of civil servants have worked systematically for several years to collect and analyze informat...

  Canada’s flag in action   Canada has been at least as surprised and concerned as Europe by President Trump's erratic behavior, in which he variously attacks his best allies and appears to agree with America's worst enemies so far. First, Trump demanded that Canada should become a state in the United States - and thus be state no. 51. To this the Prime Minister of Canada immediately replied: This has no better chance than a snowball's chance in hell! Next, Trump threatened 25% tariffs on imports from Canada.  This has now been put on hold for 30 days while the parties negotiate the matter. While all this is happening, a stronger and stronger popular and political movement has emerged in Canada, boycotting American goods, canceling planned vacations and visits to the United States - and which also means that Canadians are buying Canadian flags more than ever before to show their support. Politically, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in great difficulty for several m...

  International Criminal Court Why are the first negotiations about Ukraine between the US and Russia going to take place in Saudi Arabia?? Probably because Putin in March 2023 was called by the International Criminal Court ICC to be arrested - for war crimes and genocide.  And the Court's 123 member countries are obliged to arrest him, if he comes to their countries - and turn him over to the ICC. And Saudi Arabia is  not  a member of the ICC.  Nor is Russia and the United States.  Or China, India, Indonesia, and Turkey.   But all 27 members of the European Union are members. The ICC started its work in 2002 and has 18 judges.  Mrs. Tomoko Akane from Japan is president for the time being.   One of president Trump's initiatives the last few days has, by the way, been to condemn the ICC and what it stands for. And he has forbidden its judges to visit the United States.  This has in no way changed the policy and attitude of ...

  GREENLAND / KALAALLIT NUNAAT ( = Land of the Greenlanders ) One of the EU's 13 associated overseas countries and territories (OCT)                                          Greenland                                                                 Greenland's flag in action              Map of the country: • Size: 2,166,00 km2                           (bigger than France, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Italy,                          ...

  BAZOOKA A lot is being said and written about the many announcements made by the new American president, Donald Trump. Including his threat to i.a. Denmark in order, if necessary, to gain control of Greenland by economic and perhaps military coercion. You may have completely overlooked from the American side that since November 2023 the EU has a defense weapon at its disposal which is completely new and very effective.   And which has just been introduced to counter threats of the use of coercion against the EU or parts of the EU.   Unofficially, this weapon is called a bazooka . The reason for the introduction of this weapon was China's threats against the EU country Lithuania.   The Chinese threatened the small country with tough measures because it had an embassy from Taiwan in the country. The EU was aware that customs are old-fashioned and slow to work. You had to come up with something new. And do it quickly. The result was that the EU has given the ...