Alexander Hurst

Paris

Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance

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The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Alexander Hurst

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The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure

2 weeks 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.
The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Alexander Hurst

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Dënimi i Le Penit - rruga e guximshme që të tjerët duhet ta ndjekin

3 weeks 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.
Marine Le Pen verdict: the implications for Europe?

3 weeks 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. ...
With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow| Alexander Hurst

3 weeks 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.
A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started

1 month ago | msn.com | Alexander Hurst

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A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alexander Hurst

In six weeks, the Trump administration’s “rapid scheduled disassembly” of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of the US’s alliances and goodwill; Earth science, weather forecasting and early warning systems, medical research (including cancer research), Nasa. Academic grants more broadly have been cut, paused and subject to review for a long list of banned words (including such contentious terms as “political” and “women”).
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alexander Hurst

In 1941 Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist who reported from Germany in the lead-up to the second world war, wrote an essay for Harper’s about the personality types most likely to be attracted to Nazism, headlined “Who Goes Nazi?” “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t – whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi,” Thompson wrote.
What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out

1 month ago | msn.com | Alexander Hurst

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