In the spotlight: attempts at an alliance by the European far-right
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From left to right, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italian senator and leader of the Lega Nord (Northern League) party Matteo Salvini.
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Many comments in the European press, after the mini-summit which brought together the Hungarian and Polish Prime Ministers yesterday in Budapest with the Italian Matteo Salvini.
"
Orban and Salvini launch a far-right alliance to compete with the EPP
", the European right, headlines the Spanish daily
El Pais
, "
Orban in search of a new alliance with the radical right
", comments for his part
Le Soir
.
The Belgian daily explains how the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, now "
very isolated
", since he slammed the door of the EPP last month, intends to "
reactivate the scenario of a broad coalition around his party with the Polish PiS and Salvini's Lega
”, in order to“
maintain a platform within the European hemicycle
”.
"
The new platform would revolve around these 3 parts
", Underlines for its part
El Pais
, but their intention is to attract other groups to form"
a force which would bring together all the ultraconservative, xenophobic and eurosceptic positions, in order to take from the liberals the place of the 3rd large group of the parliament
" .
"
It remains that it is not easy to integrate parties which are characterized by their ultra-nationalism
", nevertheless notes
El Pais
who, like
Le Soir,
highlights "
their great differences, in particular over Russia
".
"
The Polish PiS
, underlines the Belgian daily,
is really struggling to swallow the proximity of Orban and Salvini with the Kremlin, which remains for Warsaw the main enemy
".
North Korea: the flight of foreign diplomats
This is information from the
Guardian
, which quotes a letter from employees of the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang relating "
a collective departure of foreign diplomatic personnel due to unbearable living conditions in the North Korean capital
".
Russian diplomats fleeing the country describe "
d
e severe shortages of medicines and other products of first necessity, a crisis fueled by strict quarantines implemented to fight against the pandemic
," further notes the
Guardian
reminds that last February Russian diplomats and their families "
were forced to cross the border on hand-pushed wagon wagons
".
Officially North Korea has not reported any cases of Covid in the country, but "
analysts believe there may have been epidemics in the military and in border towns
," said the
Guardian
.
Tokyo Olympics: the pandemic explodes the cost of transporting athletes
"
The bill is skyrocketing, and is heavier by several million dollars
", worries
The Australian
who explains that the ultra-strict health rules imposed to guarantee the holding of the Games will force "
the Australian Olympic Committee to pay multiple round trip by plane between Australia and Japan
”, for its delegation which counts 1000 people including 480 athletes.
The latter were indeed ordered to "
leave Japan within 48 hours of the end of their events, and to arrive no later than 5 days before the start of their competitions
", specifies the Australian daily, which estimates that it will therefore be necessary to charter "
9 return charter flights to Tokyo, to make everyone travel in complete safety
", even if the athletes will have all been vaccinated before their departure.
The success of "
cruises to nowhere
"
We remember the craze of Asians last fall for flights to "
nowhere
", just the pleasure of taking the plane before returning to the starting point.
Same success for cruises.
“
More than 120,000 people have taken part in these cruises '
to nowhere
' from Singapore,
” explains the FAZ
Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung
, which points out that 90 cruises were made without any case of covid on board.
"
The rules are very strict,
" notes the
Straits Times
, the Singapore newspaper, "cruise ships reduce their capacity by 50%, cruise passengers and on-board staff must pass a compulsory covid test. before boarding ”.
On board, respect for sanitary distances and prohibition of mixing between groups, "
but the formula is still very attractive
", explains the daily, "
for tourists in need of trips abroad
", "
guaranteed change of scenery
", adds its side the FAZ which also quotes "
gastronomic meals and many outdoor activities
", for these trips to nowhere.
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