How Governments Will Transform Energy Markets
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world appears to be at an inflection point. Business leaders have declared the acceleration of deglobalization and sounded the alarm about a new period of stagflation.
How the Quest for Resources Has Shaped the Continent
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has laid bare some uncomfortable truths about Europe’s energy future. For one thing, it has demolished the presumption in Germany that Russia would be a reliable fossil fuel partner. The war has also blown apart Europe’s claim to moral leadership on climate change. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in the fall of 2021, the European Union unsuccessfully demanded that China and India commit to a timetable for phasing out coal. Now that demand appears almost hypocritical, because countries such as Germany are keeping open coal-fired power stations that were due to close to deal with their present energy woes. In doing so, these leaders have demonstrated that coal is still the primary energy source of last resort for generating electricity.
The Italian Parliamentary election has concluded and the neofascist, Giorgia Meloni, is ready to emerge as the new prime minister of a divided country with no clear mandate from around 60 percent of eligible voters, in one of the lower voter turnouts in history. The choices were quite grim and the system rigged along the lines of the anti-democratic US election model after years of CIA influence in working to create a bipolar schizophrenic and easily destabilised political system.
Demonstrators burn a scarf at a protest against the Iranian government on Sunday. (David Bates/CBC)
Iranians took to the streets for a 10th consecutive night Sunday, in defiance of a warning from the judiciary, to protest the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody.
Images circulated by IHR showed protesters on the streets of Tehran, shouting “death to the dictator,” purportedly after nightfall on Sunday.
Fewer babies will be born in all of Europe than in Nigeria alone.
More than half the increase of the global population projected by 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries, mostly in Africa, according to The Economist: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Tanzania. Nigeria will have more inhabitants than Europe and the United States.
The continued instability in the global oil market will not only strengthen the unity between the key OPEC+ players but also force them to focus primarily on ensuring their own interests, before taking those of their consumers into consideration.
Russia’s war in Ukraine entered the summer of 2022 with no clear military victor in sight. What began as a war of expected bold Russian maneuvers coupled with a paralyzing aerospace and cyber campaign has degenerated into a massive tube-and-rocket-artillery duel, a World War I-style battle of attrition on a battlefield largely confined to the eastern Donbas region and along the Ukrainian border north and west of Crimea.
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Aux cris de « A bas la France » et « Vive Poutine et la Russie », les manifestants ont sillonné quelques rues de Niamey avant de tenir un meeting devant le siège de l’Assemblée nationale.
Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont manifesté pacifiquement dimanche 18 septembre dans les rues de Niamey, la capitale du Niger, pour protester notamment contre la force antidjihadiste française « Barkhane », tout en encensant la Russie, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP. Aux cris de « “Barkhane” dehors », « A bas la France », « Vive Poutine et la Russie », les manifestants ont sillonné quelques rues de la capitale avant de tenir un meeting devant le siège de l’Assemblée nationale.
L’organisation caritative espagnole Open Arms a secouru 372 personnes qui tentaient de traverser la Méditerranée centrale pour rejoindre l’Europe à bord d’embarcations en mauvais état lors de trois opérations menées sur une période de 24 heures.