Alexander Hurst

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alexander Hurst

My condolences to everyone who spent days trying to play 5D chess with Donald Trump’s market-exploding tariff mess. Where Trump is involved, there is a cloud of malevolent chaos, and there is grift amid the chaos. What grandmasters there are to be found are almost certainly grandmasters of grift.

1 month ago | msn.com | Alexander Hurst

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2 months ago | telegrafi.com | Alexander Hurst

Burimi: The GuardianPërkthimi: Telegrafi.comSistemi gjyqësor francez zgjodhi guximin në vend të dorëzimit. Ligji ishte i qartë, dhe ashtu ishte edhe gjykata në vendimin e saj: pa trajtime të veçanta për Marine Le Penin, pa nënshtrim ndaj të pushtetshmëve, pa përdorimin e kandidaturës për poste publike si justifikim për të shkelur ligjin pa pasoja.

2 months ago | eurotopics.net | Marcus Rubin |Peter Wennblad |Alexander Hurst |Dominique Seux

Le Pen is not the only one to divert EU funds, writes Krystian Szkwarek, columnist and former liaison officer for the far-right European Conservatives and Reformists Group, in Trud: “It's about EU funds that were used to pay the salaries of MEPs' staff. According to the indictment, the people in question worked not only for the parliament but also for Le Pen's party. ...

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Alexander Hurst

The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine Le Pen, no deference to the powerful, no using a candidacy for office as an excuse to break the law with impunity.