International

The EU has no money but wants to continue the war

from “Hungary Today”

(5 December 2025) (CH-S) The Hungarian government is appalled by the proposals made by some of its colleagues at the EU summit on 24 November regarding the US administration’s peace efforts in the Ukraine war. It states: “We are not prepared to mortgage our grandchildren’s future to finance a war in Ukraine that cannot be won.”

What is going on with the European Union? Directly from Hungary, contrary to the mainstream in our media.
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UN experts urge States to act

Israeli violations threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire

(5 December 2025) (Geneva – 24 November 2025) Israel’s continuing violations of the ceasefire in Gaza are threatening the fragile truce, UN experts warned today, urging all States to ensure attacks against civilians cease immediately and unhindered delivery of aid, including medical aid, is allowed into the area.

The great American bluff

by Felix Abt*

(28 November 2025) Behind the shiny façade of the US, with its record-breaking stock markets and AI rhetoric, lies an economy in which eight out of ten Americans can barely survive.

Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics

by Jeffrey D. Sachs* & Sybil Fares**

(14 November 2025) The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

The accession of Ukraine could break up the European Union

A test case for Switzerland?

by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Hamer*

(7 November 2025) (CH-S) Professor Hamer takes a closer look at the financial consequences of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Since the European Union summit in Copenhagen at the beginning of October, his fears are threatening to become reality.

Under pressure from the German, French and British governments, as well as from the European Commission under von der Leyen and Kallas, accession and thus even greater financial and military support for Ukraine by the European Union is becoming increasingly likely. But resistance within the European Union is also growing: some Central European governments are no longer willing to support Brussels’ high-handed and aggressive course at the expense of their own populations.

The world after the Budapest cancellation

The financial and geopolitical world order in times of impending unrest

by Alastair W. Crooke*

(31 October 2025) Trump’s attempt to build a “Budapest scenario” (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska “understanding”) was unilaterally cancelled (by the US) amid acrimony. Putin had initiated the 2.5 hr Monday call. It reportedly contained tough talking by Putin about the lack of US preparation towards a political framework – both in respect to Ukraine, but crucially also in respect to Russia’s wider security needs.