Source link Geopolitical tensions and political polarization at home threaten “America’s global leadership role,” Jamie Dimon has warned The US is facing grave risks in the wake of rising global geopolitical tensions and the nation’s domestic political polarization, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, has warned. In an annual shareholder letter on Monday the CEO […]
Source link Poland is dropping its demand for more than a trillion dollars in compensation from Germany for World War II losses caused during the Nazi occupation, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. The issue of reparations is closed, he announced on Thursday. “My predecessor Minister Anna Fotyga answered a parliamentary question many years […]
Source link The new government in Warsaw has stepped up efforts to receive compensation from Germany Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has questioned why the previous government in Warsaw did not formally demand World War II reparations from Russia. Polish compensation claims should have been settled by the USSR, but the money was never transferred, […]
Source link Estonia’s Kaja Kallas says memorials should be demolished despite the Baltic nation’s president vetoing the legislation last year Estonia should press ahead with legislation allowing the demolition of Soviet WWII memorials from public spaces, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas declared on Tuesday. Along with Baltic neighbors Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia has intensified its campaign […]
Source link Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre has accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of deceiving the public about his role in the honoring of a former Ukrainian Waffen-SS soldier last year. Poilievre made his comments after Trudeau’s office confirmed to Canadian media on Tuesday that it had invited the 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka to […]
Source link The country’s population is increasingly sustained by immigrants and the elderly, government statistics show Births in France fell to their lowest number last year since the end of the Second World War, the country’s national statistics office has revealed. As in much of Europe, fertility rates in France are declining, while mass immigration […]
Source link Moscow slammed the removal of the Red Army statue in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, as “rehabilitation of Nazism” The dismantling of a 37-meter tall monument honoring the Soviet Army soldiers who liberated Bulgaria, a nation that had been allied with Nazi Germany during World War II, commenced in Sofia on Tuesday. The removal has […]
Source link The team will deal with compensation from Berlin and assess how much to demand from Moscow, a top official said Poland has set up a parliamentary group to work on World War II reparations from Germany and Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mulyarczyk said on Thursday. The group’s members include the leader of […]