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US SECRETARY of State John Kerry was in Albania yesterday to press for “reforms” on the promise of European Union membership.
Mr Kerry stopped in the capital Tirana before flying back to Washington following contentious meetings on Ukraine in Munich.
The proposals include the creation of an anti-corruption court and prosecutor’s office as well as a national investigative body similar to the FBI.
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
