We’re used to our leaders strutting, smirking and then caving before someone of substance they can’t ignore. Joseph Muscat squirmed before the BBC; Evarist Bartolo cowered before Deutsche Welle. And, only last week, our great leaders simpered like awed schoolboys in the presence of Ukraine’s war president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The embarrassing spectacle
Reading Time: 2 minutes BERLIN, May 18 (Reuters) – The foreign minister of Austria said his country would retain its neutral status even as EU allies Sweden and Finland overhauled decades-long foreign policy stances to apply for NATO membership in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The situation for us looks a little different,” Austrian Foreign
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky found fault with the terminology used by Speaker Anġlu Farrugia to describe the situation in his homeland. “We don’t have a conflict, we have a war,” Zelensky told Farrugia after the latter used the word ‘conflict’ to describe the situation in Ukraine. What started as a conflict between two countries – whereby