He is the son of a single mother and experienced as a teenager what it is like to be “homeless”, six months living in a shelter. He got to college thanks to an assistance program for students without resources (Education Maintenance Allowance. EMA) who fell under the guillotine of David Cameron's austerity. He is 34 years old, he is gay, he defines himself as a “pragmatic socialist” and he has all the tickets to become the redheaded alternative to “blonde ambition” (run down).

Danny Beales is the name of the anti-Boris Johnson, Labor candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the remote district on the north-west outskirts of London where special elections are held on Thursday for the seat vacated by the former prime minister, forced to resign also as a deputy after the devastating report that accused him of “deliberately misleading” Parliament about Partygate.

Danny Beales, Labor candidate for the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. PA via REUTERS

The Conservative Party is facing what is already known as the “long Boris”, a political version of the “persistent” Covid. The expression has been coined by MP Steve Brine and reflects concern among Tories about the long-term impact on voters of the successive Boris Johnson scandals.

Votes are cast on Thursday in two other traditionally Conservative constituencies: Somerton and From, and Selby and Ainsty. A triple defeat would leave the “premier” Rishi Sunak in a very precarious situation, with 80% of the British “dissatisfied” with his management (according to a recent Ipsos poll) and growing concern among the conservative base and among parliamentarians “tories”.

Boris Johnson won by 7,000 votes in Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2019, when he achieved his resounding absolute majority. Four years later, the economic and social malaise is evident in this multi-ethnic corner in the confines of London (zone 6).. Here they curiously voted for Brexit six years ago; among them, the grandparents of Danny Beales himself…

“People are fed up and frustrated with the situation,” Beales laments.. “Everyone is worse off financially, and that's a general feeling. People are concerned about the rise in the shopping basket, the waiting lists in public health, not being able to pay the mortgage. And it's something that happens all over the country.”

The “general feeling” is that Danny Beales, despite his limited experience as a councilor in “metropolitan” Camden, has what it takes to turn the tables and achieve Labor's unusual victory in Boris Johnson's district. We spent six months living in shelters, and that had a huge effect on our mental and emotional health.. I have had to fight throughout my life, but all the welfare programs that allowed me to get to university have disappeared or deteriorated these 13 years. And that is going to be my task as a deputy: to get the Government to adopt practical measures so that people can achieve their full potential.”

Russia made it clear that a detention of President Vladimir Putin in South Africa would amount to a declaration of war. The country's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, issued the warning when there is a month left for an international meeting to take place in Johannesburg, to which the Russian president was invited, who ultimately will not attend..

Russia will be represented by its Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who is not at risk of being extradited. An arrest warrant hangs over Putin on charges related to the war in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court.

South African authorities had addressed Moscow saying they “would be happy” if Putin did not attend the summit.. The government of the African country suggested that the Russian delegation be headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, but the idea was rejected at first, although the Kremlin never officially confirmed Putin's intention to fly to South Africa.

After announcing Wednesday that Putin will not go to the summit, the Kremlin assured that at no time did it tell South Africa that arresting the Russian president would mean “war”. However, presidential spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters in Moscow that everyone understood, without being explained, what an attempt to infringe on Putin's “rights” would mean.

Before Moscow gave up sending the president, the opposition in South Africa tried to prepare an arrest of the Russian leader by cornering the government. According to the 'Independent Online', the South African president testified in relation to a lawsuit by the main opposition party, Democratic Alliance, which demanded that the court order the government of the country to execute this arrest warrant against Putin.

In his testimony, Ramaphosa admitted that South Africa would have “obvious problems” arresting the Russian president.. “It would be incompatible with our constitution to risk going to war with Russia.. I have constitutional obligations to protect the national sovereignty, peace and security of the republic,” he explained..

Ramaphosa also argued that arresting Putin conflicted with South Africa's efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.. He himself accompanied several African leaders last month to a meeting with Ukraine's president in Kiev and then Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a path to ending the war, a mission that was met with skepticism from both.

Conflict of interests

South Africa has been between a rock and a hard place these weeks. It has ratified the Rome Statute, so it would be legally obliged to arrest Putin by order of the International Criminal Court and extradite him to The Hague.. These months South Africa has been exploring options in order to avoid arresting Putin if he had decided to go to Johannesburg. President Ramaphosa went so far as to ensure that national security is at stake.

South Africa has already avoided fulfilling its obligations to international justice in the past. In 2015, the country hosted then-Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at an African Union meeting, after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him for, among other crimes, genocide.. He stopped short of arresting Al-Bashir and hastily sent him out of the country from a military airport.. Attempts had been made to force the arrest through the High Court, which upheld the fact that he should be detained, but this was not followed through.. The government appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals and once again lost.

Putin was invited to South Africa for the big event in August, which is when the country hosts a summit for members of the BRICS countries, an acronym that encompasses Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.. This bloc of fast-growing economies is seen by some as an alternative to the G-7 group of advanced economies, from which Russia was expelled when it was called the G-8 as punishment after the 2014 invasion of Crimea..

African countries have been notable for their reluctance to endorse UN general assembly resolutions condemning Russia's war in Ukraine. Links from the past weigh heavily on the fight against apartheid in South Africa, where the Soviet Union was much more involved than the US. But above all the current dependence of some African countries on Russian Wagner mercenaries to fight the jihadists, as well as economic agreements between Russia and African nations. But South Africa is also waiting to renew trade agreements with the US, a country that has not signed the Treaty of Rome that supports the order but that views Putin's arrest positively.

According to the BBC, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, is one of the biggest donors to South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress.

Peru broke on Wednesday the five months of dead calm after the political and social outbreak that rocked the Andean country due to the failed coup attempt by former President Pedro Castillo. A new Takeover of Lima, the third, called by unions, social organizations, unions and different political leaders despite the failure of the previous one, with which it is intended to lash out at President Dina Boluarte and Congress and thus revive the protests of December and January.

At the head, the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), which in addition to the presidential resignation demands the advancement of the general elections. Part of the protesters also demand the implementation of a Constituent Assembly, which is the main point of the political agenda of Peru Libre (PL), the Marxist-Leninist party that supports Castillo.

The first president has a rejection of 80% of the population and Parliament has it even worse, with 90% of the country against her. In his favor, the recovery of citizen tranquility after the months that convulsed the Andean country.

“We do not understand why now they once again wave their war flags and announce that they will arrive in Lima, wanting to take over the entire country from the center.. It is a threat to democracy, as a democratic government we are not going to allow or accept it,” the president harangued in a message to the country from the Government Palace, escorted by her ministers. The Ministry of the Interior anticipated the deployment of 24,000 police officers and the extension of the state of emergency on national highways.

Very similar words, but to expose the opposite, used the former centrist president Martín Vizcarra, who joined the protests: “Democracy is in danger, if we lose our capacity for indignation and do not protest peacefully at the time, then it will be too late.”

The demonstrators break the police cordon and reach the outside of the Congress

Thousands of people who took to the streets of Lima to protest this Wednesday broke through the police cordon located at one of the points in the historic center and reached the exterior of the Peruvian Congress, whose closure they have been demanding since the beginning of the year, as well as the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

The mobilization that brought together social, political, union and student organizations passed peacefully in its movement between the Dos de Mayo and San Martín squares, but, halfway, it stopped in front of a police fence that prevented access to Abancay avenue, which crosses a good part of the center of the capital. At the end of that avenue is the Parliament building, which remained closed and guarded by the National Police with tanks and other mobile units.

The demonstrators began to push the shields of the police officers and throw water bottles and other objects to break the siege, and they finally succeeded after a confrontation, in which there was no shortage of tear gas and smoke bombs.. The Police detained a protester who confronted the agents wrapped in a flag. A group of agents went on motorcycles to another access point to Congress to prevent the massive arrival of protesters, while a greater number of police officers went to block the passage on the avenue.

Once there, local television showed the president of Congress, José Williams, watching from a balcony the protesters who continued to arrive outside, a situation that had not occurred in the protest mobilizations of the previous months.

exhaust the legislature

Bolaurte, the vice president who replaced the ousted Castillo, has managed to remain at the head of the country thanks to the support received in Congress from a large part of the right and Fujimorismo. Despite the fact that at the beginning of the protests in December and January the president announced to the country that she supported the electoral advance, even for this year, the parliamentary maneuvers of her allies prevented it from coming to fruition.. Boluarte plans to govern until July 2026 to exhaust the current legislature.

“This issue is closed, we will continue to work responsibly,” the president backed down, over whom a heavy sword of Damocles gravitates: the fifty fatalities caused, in large part, by police repression during the protests. The national universities of Cajamarca, Castillo's homeland, woke up taken over by students.

One of the great battles will be the seizure of the roads, a key factor during the protests last December and January. The anti-government groups then managed to paralyze part of the country's transport and hinder the logistics of food and basic products. In Cusco and Arequipa, the epicenter of the demonstrations, the suspension of face-to-face classes was decreed.

The historic Taking of Lima, also known as the March of the Four Suyos (the Incas divided their empire into Four Suyos), is part of the great democratic milestones of Latin America. Led among others by the now imprisoned Toledo, it caused the fall of the dictator Alberto Fujimori and his right-hand man, the sinister Vladimiro Montesinos. Toledo had just lost the 2000 elections in a new electoral fraud by Fujimori. Today these two former presidents are the only tenants, along with Pedro Castillo, of the Barbadillo prison in Lima.

Despite the self-coup led by the teacher from Cajamarca in December, various presidents of the Patria Grande, such as the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro and the Colombian Gustavo Petro, maintain their unrestricted support for the standard bearer of Peru Libre.

On November 10, 1987, Haim Herzog became the first Israeli president to address both houses of the United States Congress.. The celebration of Israel's 75th anniversary has made his son Isaac the second president to address the representatives of his country's great ally. Although the reason and circumstances of the hosts' invitation are different, the guest's goal is the same: to strengthen relations with Israel's main diplomatic and military umbrella.

“We are proud to be the closest partner and friend of the United States. We are grateful for the necessary means that you have provided us to maintain our qualitative military advantage and allow us to defend ourselves,” Herzog said in a speech interrupted several times by enthusiastic applause.. Despite divergences, he declared, “when America is strong, Israel is stronger. When Israel is strong, America is more secure.”

The former Israeli labor leader, with excellent relations on Capitol Hill and the White House where he met with President Joe Biden on Tuesday, deploys all his rhetoric and diplomatic experience inherent in his family (his uncle was the famous diplomat Abba Eban and his brother Mike is the current ambassador to Washington) on his visit to the US to ensure that the alliance is not affected by the tensions between the Biden Administration and the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the conflict with the Palestinians and the monumental internal crisis as a result of the judicial reform project. Herzog did not dodge this thorny issue that has been shaking his country with demonstrations for 28 consecutive weeks and dividing his people beyond what the legislative proposals mean.

“The momentous debate in Israel is painful and deeply disconcerting because it highlights the cracks in the whole,” he commented, adding: “I am aware of the imperfections of Israeli democracy but as President of Israel, I am here to tell the American people that I have great confidence in Israeli democracy.. I know that it is strong and resilient, Israel has democracy in its DNA.”

Herzog called for dialogue to agree on the reform proposed by the Government and was clear in the face of attempts to weaken the judiciary: “Israel prides itself on its vibrant democracy, the protection of minorities, human rights and civil liberties, as determined by its Parliament and as preserved by a strong Supreme Court and an independent judicial system.”

On social networks, activists participating in the protests against the government accuse Herzog of not having directly denounced Netanyahu and “the proposed revolt of the democratic regime camouflaged in the so-called reform.”. Supporters of the plan promoted by the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, for their part, assure that “the reform will correct the imbalance in the relationship between the executive power and that of the judges, who have unprecedented strength compared to other democracies.”

As the script marks in this type of act, the Israeli leader warned of what many in his country consider “existential threat. “Perhaps the biggest challenge for Israel and the US is Iran's nuclear program. Iran is the only country on the planet that publicly calls, plans and develops means to annihilate another country: Israel.”. The one who did not remain indifferent was Netanyahu when he pointed out that “the president's speech was important and expressed our firm and energetic position against Iran.”

Herzog thanked the US for its decisive intervention in achieving the peace agreements with Egypt (79) and Jordan (94) and in the normalization of relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco (2020) as well as its current mediation with Saudi Arabia. If this last scenario of which he says “pray” for it to arrive, “it would be a huge change in the course of history in the Middle East and in the world.” “My deepest wish is that Israel one day make peace with our Palestinian neighbors,” he declared before warning that “Palestinian terrorism against the Israelis undermines the possibility of a future of peace between our peoples.”

To avoid criticism from Netanyahu, who has not yet been formally invited to the White House, and to show that US support remains bipartisan, Herzog declared before leaving for Washington that his visit was due to “an invitation from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat) and current Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Republican).”

“America has an unbreakable bond with Israel. Our commitment to Israel's security is ironclad,” Vice President Kamala Harris said after witnessing his speech.. Later they met and announced a joint initiative of 70 million dollars for an investment related to high technologies, innovation and the climate crisis in countries of the Middle East and Africa.

Five congressmen, known for their support of the Palestinian cause and opposition to Israel, boycotted Herzog's speech. Among them, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib who accuses the Israeli authorities of applying “an apartheid regime”. The anti-Israeli position of the current located furthest to the left in the Democratic Party contrasts with that of Biden, who maintains a very different position from that of the current Government in Jerusalem but represents the generation of leaders who have always supported the Jewish State.. Questioning the Jewish people's right to self-determination is not legitimate diplomacy but anti-Semitism,” he stated in his most important speech due to the setting and moment in his country's history.

Thailand has experienced another episode this Wednesday that leads it to slide even further down the dangerous slope of chronic institutional instability that the Southeast Asian nation has suffered for decades. In a worrying, though not surprising, twist in the script, the Thai Constitutional Court has disqualified Pita Limjaroenrat (42 years old), winner of last May's elections, as a deputy, just at the time when Parliament was debating his second attempt to achieve the investiture as prime minister.

The leader of the newly minted Move Forward Party (MFP) party did not get the support of a simple majority of deputies and senators last week, despite his resounding victory at the polls – he obtained more than 14 million votes – and having formed a government coalition with up to seven parties. Because it crashed, fundamentally, against the veto of the members of the Upper House, handpicked in its day by the government of the coup general and acting prime minister Prayut Chan-ocha. And it is that the powerful conservative elites of Thailand see in the young businessman and politician a dangerous revolutionary, due to his promises of democratic reforms that would affect even the untouchable institution of the country, the Monarchy, and they were not willing to facilitate his access to power.

Limjaroenrat had arrived early in the morning at the Thai Parliament with no hope of turning things around in a second vote.. In fact, after last Thursday's defeat, the coalition he led had begun to crumble and the second most voted party in May, the populist Pheu Thai of the Shinawatra – one of the country's great political dynasties – had spent days negotiating behind the scenes for a plan B, which would involve one of its candidates choosing to be sworn in as prime minister, already with the support of conservative and ultra-monarchical formations and, naturally, the endorsement of the army.. Aware of his precarious situation, Limjaroenrat announced earlier in the week that if he did not get the necessary support from Parliament he would throw in the towel and step back.. What he did not count on was that the Justice was going to give him the thrust even before the vote with a disqualification as a great thrust.

After receiving the temporary suspension of his deputy act, the television cameras have focused on a resigned Limjaroenrat who has been forced to hand over his parliamentary credentials and meekly leave the Chamber, asking in a good tone all the members of the Hemicycle to “use the parliamentary system to take care of the people”.

Some 150 pro-Pita protesters immediately approached the gates of Parliament to show their disappointment.. Some threw plastic bottles at the venue and others launched orange smoke canisters, the one chosen with great intention as identification by the Move Forward Party since the hue is halfway between yellow, which is considered the pro-Monarchy color in Thailand, and the red that citizens have used to use in demonstrations in favor of democracy in recent years.

And with the progressive leader absent from Parliament, the long debate on his investiture has continued as if nothing had happened, since the Thai electoral system – like the Spanish one, without going any further – does not require the prime minister to be a parliamentarian. Although, finally, by 395 votes against Limjaroenrat and 312 in favor, the progressive leader was prevented from opting for a second vote.

“It is evident that the vote of the people is not enough to govern the country,” declared the disgraced politician in a message posted on his Instagram account.

The members of the Constitutional Court, by five votes to two, have suspended the aspiring prime minister after a complaint against him for allegedly violating electoral rules by showing up to the polls as the owner of a package of shares in a media outlet, something prohibited, although in this case the television channel has not operated since 2007. The winner of the elections has excused himself, explaining that the shares were part of his father's estate, now deceased, and that they had been transferred to the family environment upon his death and that he had limited himself to administering them as executor. Many analysts stress that the complaint is part of the witch hunt by the country's elites, led by the military and the high Buddhist hierarchy, who did not tolerate the reformist measures promoted by Limjaroenrat, especially his desire to modify the draconian lese majesty law, which punishes anyone who dares to voice even the slightest criticism of the royal family with harsh prison terms.. If Limjaroenrat were found guilty in the ongoing judicial process, he could face 20 years of political disqualification and 10 years in prison.

“Do not give in to the obstacles that prevent the nation from freeing itself from the shackles that have stopped the country's democracy, do not stop because rules and regulations have been created to favor authoritarianism that slows down the development of the country, which is truly the people's,” wrote Kannavee Suebsang, secretary general of the Fair Party, on the networks, as soon as he learned of Limjaroenrat's disqualification, giving voice to the frustration that millions of Thais will feel today who see how the expression democracy at the polls collides with the immobilist forces that try to maintain an iron status quo.

Thailand has been subjected to continuous coups d'état and pronouncements that prevent the consolidation of a democratic regime since the 1940s. The last coup occurred in 2014, when the military resumed power. It was not until this past month of May when the Thais were once again able to participate in elections with guarantees, although now we are witnessing the deliberate blocking of those who refuse to accept the results – the opposition parties swept 70% of the votes.

massive protests

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, between 2020 and 2021 there were massive protests in the Asian nation, led mainly by tens of thousands of young students who demanded the recovery of freedoms under slogans such as “Down with dictatorship, long live democracy!”. In the marches there was unprecedented criticism of the Monarchy that today is headed by the controversial King Maha Vajiralongkorn. Although the institution is not in question at the moment, more and more Thais want to break all the taboos that hyper-protect the Crown, making it untouchable.

Pita Limjaroenrat campaigned promising a reform of the lèse majesté law, both to reduce the years of sentences that the norm contemplates for any gesture or comment that is considered offensive against the Monarchy, and to establish that only the Office of the Royal Household can file complaints for defamation and insults, compared to the current situation in which anyone can do so. The latter is especially important since the law has been repeatedly used by successive governments as an instrument to muzzle dissent.

Only since 2020, there are 252 people, including children under 14 years of age, charged in Thailand for alleged violation of the lèse majesté law.

With news as discouraging as the order given last week by the fundamentalist regime of the Taliban forcing the closure of hairdressers and beauty salons in Afghanistan -practically the only space for socialization that they still had left

After years of progressive separation, of constant clashes and irreconcilable positions, the EU and Turkey have begun to redirect their differences. But that just this Thursday the foreign ministers of the 17 have decided to put relations with Ankara on the table, and have dusted off such important issues for Recep Tayyip Erdogan such as the possible exemption of visas or the deepening of customs is very striking.. The decision to put it on the agenda comes just a few days after the veiled blackmail that was heard the day before the start of the recent NATO Summit: “Turkey has been waiting at the door of the EU for more than 50 years. I appeal to these countries that keep Turkey waiting. Open the way for Turkey to the EU and we will clear the way for Sweden,” Erdogan said at Atatürk airport, before traveling to Vilnius..

The relationship does not seem casual. Diplomatic sources assure that there is no link, that there was no Turkish blackmail and that regardless of what he said in his country, in the meeting room of the Alliance he did not raise the subject at any time. But the fact is that there was a compromise agreement and that Erdogan agreed, in theory, to endorse the entry of Sweden, something that the assembly must do in the autumn. And immediately afterwards, the EU takes a big step, more symbolic than concrete, as a sign of goodwill. In international relations, if you quack like a duck, walk like a duck, and behave like a duck, the animal in front of you is most likely a duck..

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, considered this Thursday “good news” that Turkey wants to get closer and has applauded that its positions on the war have “created a new dynamic” in the neighborhood and in the accession process. It is good news and now the ministers will have to discuss how to respond,” said the Spaniard, who met his new counterpart last week in Indonesia, confirming that “first the modernization of the customs union and also the issue of visas” would be considered..

The moment can be controversial, but the truth is that it suits all parties. To some because they can present it in a national key as a sign of their negotiating power before a previously hostile Europe and at a very delicate moment for its economy, which desperately needs the euros that come from its first commercial social. And the others because they can attribute it to a change in course abroad that, in turn, justifies reaching out, even though it may seem to give in to pressure.

The EU had already planned to study in depth the relationship with Türkiye. The conclusions of the June European Council, the document that the leaders agree on and sets the political guidelines for the institutions, agreed precisely to invite “the High Representative and the Commission to present a report on the situation of relations between the EU and Turkey, based on the instruments and options defined by the European Council and in order to proceed strategically and prospectively”.

At 27 they are interested. On the one hand, because the Russian invasion of Ukraine has effectively changed almost everything, starting with foreign policy and what to do with the neighbors. From the Balkans, included in what is known as the European Political Community to narrow the deal, to the applicants for membership, whose list, in addition to some Balkans, now includes Ukraine, Moldova or Georgia. And that inevitably affects Turkey as well.. Josep Borrell's team, in charge of preparing and directing the meetings of community ministers, has urged everyone to think in which areas “the EU could concentrate its efforts to consolidate or increase its influence in relations with Turkey”, given the new “geopolitical relevance” of Ankara. “In light of the changing geopolitical context, it is important to discuss the path forward in relations between the EU and Turkey in the short and medium term,” says the preparatory text that the Financial Times advanced and this newspaper has been able to read..

The second truth is that the agreement between the two parties by which Turkey assumes the commitment to contain migratory flows and prevent the departure of refugee boats to Europe expires this year.. It was not only 3,000 million euros, but when it was signed, in 2016, the EU agreed to reopen the frozen chapters on accession that make express reference to visas and customs. It was done, but subsequent events, including a controversial and bizarre failed coup, and subsequent repression, ended up once again suspending any progress.. The migration problem, or rather, the political problem in the EU due to the inability to find common solutions, is still there, so renewing the agreement is vital. This same Sunday, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, traveled to Tunisia to sign something similar in exchange for more than 1,000 million euros.

The third reality is that, against the odds, Turkey is indeed turning towards Europe after five years of moving away from it.. He has insisted that the country has earned the right to be in NATO; he has recently angered Russia by releasing prisoners of war from Mariupol; It has acted as a mediator on various issues, including the grain agreement that Russia has blown up these days. And being part of the Alliance, he maintains relations with almost all the members. It has blocked Sweden, yes, but it accepted Finland. He has not made merits to be the first friend, but in Brussels they recognize a change and believe that in the current international context, it is essential to take advantage of it.

The situation is by no means on track. Almost no one is in favor right now of removing the visa requirement, there are doubts about customs and the political will for anything that has to do with a hypothetical future accession is buried, perhaps forever. Then there is the question of Cyprus, which for Athens and Nicosia is sacred. Any progress with Turkey must not only take into account human rights, political rights or the country's anti-terrorism laws, but the situation in the occupied part of the island.. The Cypriot minister, Constantinos Kombos, made it clear that any progress must be “oriented to the reference criteria, based on merits, proportionate and subject to the established conditionalities”, he said, recalling that just today marks the 49th anniversary of the Turkish invasion.

Not to mention that the country is pretending to be clueless with the sanctions against Moscow and has strengthened commercial exchanges, taking advantage of the vacuum created in the European market and the fall in prices.. “We are convinced that there is a reciprocal interest in having a stronger relationship and in de-escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean that will help the stability and security of all. The EU must get involved to build on mutual interests and bridge existing differences. That goes in two directions. There are issues that Turkey has expressed interest in, such as the review of the customs union agreement or the liberalization of visas, the two most important things they can raise. But we hope that there will be a de-escalation in the eastern Mediterranean and negotiations will resume according to the UN proposals. The relationship with Greece or Cyprus, and that area of the Mediterranean, is essential for constructive relations”, the 27 have settled, returning the ball to Ankara.

On the 512th day of the Ukrainian war, the kamikaze missiles and drones fired by Russia caused “damage to the port infrastructure” in the Odessa region, to an administrative building and several residential buildings.. The result was one dead and four injured, including a child.

To these new victims of the invasion of Ukraine, we must add about twenty wounded (including children) in the Mikoláyiv region where Russian cruise missiles were directed against “ports, docks, homes and companies”, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Ukrainian air defenses “could not intercept all the missiles, in particular the Kh-22 and Onyx supersonics” that Russia also used in its third night attack on Odessa after Russia failed to extend the agreement for the export of grain through Ukrainian Black Sea ports.

The Odessa region has played a key role in the export of grains after the agreement between kyiv and Moscow. An agreement that expired on Monday and Russia has not revalidated that could lead to a global food crisis that causes the massive arrival of refugees to Western European countries that help Ukraine.

The European Union is studying the creation of a fund of 20,000 million euros in four years to continue supporting the Ukrainian army in its fight against the Russian invasion.