Новости за 13.03.2021

Eline Schaart, Politico EU

Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) dropped from nine seats to five in the national parliament's upper house at elections in 2019. At European Parliament elections the same year, the party barely reached the electoral threshold — gaining a single MEP only after the U.K. left the EU and the seats were redistributed.

Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor

Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced March 9 his plans to participate in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections. In a wide-ranging interview published on the front page of the leading Palestinian daily newspaper Al Quds, Fayyad said he plans to "establish a list of independent individuals to participate in the upcoming legislative elections in an honorable, transparent and competitive way."

Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs

Adding New Commitments in Asia Will Only Invite Disaster

Graham Allison, TNI

America's death toll from COVID is now larger than the total US combatant deaths in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. The question we should all be asking is how many of these deaths were unnecessary?

Anton Mardasov & Kirill Semyonov, Riddle

On the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of its civil war, a chance has emerged for Libya to reach genuine political settlement: under pressure from Washington, which firmly stepped in after a long pause, Libyans in Geneva elected a new unified transitional government for their country in early February. President-elect of the Presidential Council Mohamed al-Menfi and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh have been tasked with preparing and holding... Читать дальше...

Christina Lu, Foreign Policy

Protests over the arrest of a popular opposition leader highlight the decline in what was a beacon of democracy in West Africa.