The United
Nations Secretary General praised Italy
last week for its migrant rescues that have saved tens of thousands of lives,
but said that the Italy and Greece have not
been financially supported adequately for their efforts by the European Union.
The
European Parliament blamed the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact for contributing to the
Second World War in a resolution last week.
Because of the pact, the Soviets conquered the Baltic States and, after
the German invasion of Poland
from the West, the Soviet Union invaded Russia from the East. Russian Federation tyrant Vladimir
Putin, an ex-Soviet intelligence officer, who reacted angrily to the
resolution, has been trying to minimize the role of the Nazi-Soviet pact. He regards the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 to have been a disaster and has been
attempting to rehabilitate the Soviet image and to reconstitute the Soviet
empire.
Meanwhile, the United States has imposed economic sanctions on the Europeans because of their acceptance of natural gas through a new Russian pipeline. Russia uses its supply of energy as political leverage. Russia’s resources benefit its oligarchs, not its people.
The withdrawal
bill for the United Kingdom
to leave the European Union was approved preliminarily by the House of Commons
last week. It must also be approved by
the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Parliament. The deal commits the UK to leave the EU by
the end of January and to conclude a free trade deal by the end of 2020,
without any delays, meaning that the lack of a deal could leave the British
without any trade relations with the EU.
The deal follows the elections that gave a majority to the Conservative
Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was elected on a mandate to
complete the withdrawal approved by voters in June of 2016 to leave the EU.
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