Two people were killed and three buried children were rescued from the rubble after an earthquake hit the Italian holiday island of Ischia. Although the magnitude of the quake was estimated at only 4, many buildings collapsed. Exactly one year after the devastating Amatrice earthquake Italy's press reacts with bitterness to this latest disaster.
Travelling to Romania and Bulgaria this week, French President Macron is pushing for a more stringent EU Posted Workers Directive, which allows businesses to send workers to another EU member country temporarily provided they receive the prevailing minimum wage. Macron wants to limit competition from such workers on the French labour market. Commentators take a critical view of the initiative.
French President Macron plans to present his eagerly awaited reform for increasing labour market flexibility at the end of August. Commentators discuss what's at stake.
Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year guarantee of non-belligerence, on 24 August 1939. In a secret supplementary protocol Estonia and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence and Lithuania to the German sphere. This chapter in the history of the Baltic states still moves commentators today.
Former Turkish interior minister and MP for the right-wing nationalist MHP, Meral Akşener, has founded a new party. After a major row last year with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli over his support for Erdoğan and the latter's presidential system, Akşener, who enjoys strong support among Turkey's right, wants to form a secular centre-right opposition. What are the party's chances of success?
Majdnem két évre sötétségbe borította a Földet az a hatalmas mennyiségű korom, amely a dinoszauruszok kipusztulását okozó aszteroida becsapódását követő globális erdőtüzek révén került a légkörbe. A sötétség következtében a növények nem jutottak elég fényhez a fotoszintézishez, a bolygó felszíne pedig drasztikusan lehűlt.
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