'When I started queuing in the morning I intended to vote against secession, but when I ticked the ballot paper I chose independence'. The reaction of a lady in Barcelona to Madrid's heavy handed tactics, including the police brutality on the day of the referendum in Catalonia.

VIENNA( Reuters)-The United States accused Russia on Thursday of planning to short-circuit Ukrainian democracy by forcing the government from power and dismantling local authorities." We have information that Russia's planning for its further invasion of Ukraine includes a forced capitulation of Ukraine's democratically elected government, including dissolving all local municipal governments in Ukraine," U.S. Ambassador Michael Carpenter said in an address to the Vienna-based Organization for Se

Zelenskiy said the blasts" prove that we must not drop our vigilance.... There was no Russian comment on the blasts.... Russian forces are now entrenched in the east, where Moscow-backed separatists have held territory since 2014, and are holding onto a swathe of the south that they seized in March....

A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the first of many tremors leading up to a larger political earthquake that will be felt all over the European continent.

The French President, who was believed until recently to have to face Marine Le Pen in the 2022 election, is now being challenged by left, centre and right candidates, all gaining support in the polls.A new Harris interactive poll published today revealed up to 42 percent of French voters now feel further away from President Macron's policy. The poll saw a tightening of voting intentions in the first round with Macron at 23 percent, Marine Le Pen at 16 percent, Xavier Bertrand at 14 percent, Eri

Israel is in the midst of a severe political crisis. Two parliamentary elections, held in the spring and fall of 2019, ended in a draw, with neither political camp able to form a government.

Those in neighbouring roads could also be allowed to take part in each vote. The plans are intended to help prevent councils from erasing centuries of local heritage without properly consulting residents.... The change was approved with the support of two Lib Dem councillors and the road will become La Rose Lane, after the poet and activist John La Rose. But the change is being made despite some residents voicing objections.... Why all of a sudden now, because of the Black Lives Matter movemen

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The way Russia is pressured is creating an existential threat, against which it might use nuclear weapons. This would lead to a Third World War or Third European War.

On March 25, 1957, six European countries – Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the FRG and France – signed a blank piece of paper called the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community. The actual text of the agreement, at that moment, was absent.