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Counting Vučić and SNS members

Counting sheep was the best traditional natural recipe found to get you to sleep if you can’t sleep. They say that shepherds in medieval Britain still counted sheep, counted, counted, every time they went to sleep, and that’s how they finally got to SNA. In modern Serbia, with a similar …

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Surviving Contact with the Enemy: The UK’s Economic Crime Plan (2023–2026)

The UK government’s second Economic Crime Plan is welcome, but do enforcement agencies have the arsenal to deliver? When the UK government’s first ever whole-of-government plan for tackling the myriad harms of economic crime to the UK wrapped up in July 2022, we gave its impact a mixed scorecard. Although …

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POLISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER FALLS ON SWORD AS ZELENSKY VISITS POLAND

The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

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