Kurdistan 24 spoke recently with Najmaldin Karim, who served as Governor of Kirkuk Province until Baghdad’s assault last October in an attack engineered by Qasim Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is in two parts. In the first part it lays the historical background of the response of capital in the face …

Η Κεντροαριστερά στην Ευρώπη είναι σε άνθηση. Χθες ο ηγέτης των Βρετανών Εργατικών, Κιρ Στάρμερ, μίλησε συγκινητικά για τη χειρωνακτική εργασία και υποσχέθηκε ένα πράσινο New Deal. Στη Γερμανία ο Ολαφ Σολτς κέρδισε τις εκλογές, εντάσσοντας στην ατζέντα του SPD τις ανισότητες, την αύξηση του κατώτατου μισθού και την κλιματική …

Jasmina Hostert, born in Pašić in 1982, was seriously wounded, losing her arm at the beginning of the war in BiH. She was then sent to Germany for treatment and is now an SPD lawmaker in the Bundestag. Adis Ahmetović was born in Hanover after his parents left BiH for …

Iohannis, the first ethnic German to be elected president of Romania, has long been seen as a close ally of Angela Merkel in EU summits. He has so far been silent on the results of the German elections, as well as the vast majority of his allies. PNL, the center-right …

Саркози, конечно, немного жаль, но — лишение свободы за незаконное финансирование президентской компании 2012 года… Ах, как это прекрасно звучит! Только немного смущает сумма: сто пятьдесят тысяч евро. Это детский сад какой-то. Это — на карманные расходы. А еще великая страна, называется… Где размах, Николя? А трахнуть Конституцию и пойти …

“Potential change of government in Germany will not impact the Polish-German relations substantially”, says Agnieszka Łada-Konefał, vice-director of the German Institute of Polish Affairs in Darmstadt (Deutsches Polen-Institut in Darmstadt). “There is room for new accents. Poland shall remain an important partner for Germany and an important EU member state, …

A potential German left-wing progressive government ruled by the SPD may be bad news for Slovakia and the Visegrad region. Especially with Die Linke in the coalition, said Milan Nič, the German Council on Foreign Relations analyst. Even without Die Linke in the government, Nič expects the new government’s stance …

Faced with public debt accounting for 210% of the GDP, Greeks focussed on the stance of the next German government on EU fiscal policy. There are fears that a “Jamaica government”, with the Ministry of Finance going into the hands of the Liberals, will insist on returning to a strict …

The Austrian Green-chief congratulated his German sister party for their “best result in history” and says that the current constellation “is a great opportunity to enter government on the federal level.” The result of the German Greens is “good news for the future of our children in Europe,” he added. …