UK New Car Registrations Are Set To Tumble In the case of a no deal Brexit, in which the country must resort to WTO rules for international trade, the negative effects on the UK car industry could be devastating. The current uncertainty surrounding the type of deal that will be struck with the EU is already …

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Meanwhile In Greece… Less than a week after the Greek government sent additional police forces to reinforce its land border with Turkey as fears mount over a sharp rise in the number of refugees and migrants crossing the frontier, The Guardian reports that  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced down protests from citizens Thursday upset over …

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As US Military Effectiveness And Diplomacy Fade, Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world. In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in …

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What May 2018 Has In Store: It's Difficult To Understate The Looming Dangers Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The month of May is always associated with V-E Day. The sentiments of “never again” were strong 73 years ago, in 1945 when the UN was founded. Since then Europe has put a …

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Furious Migrant Mob "Forcefully Prevents" German Police From Deporting Asylum Seeker It appears that nationalists were on to something when they warned about “no go” zones in Germany, Sweden and other European countries that have taken in millions of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and elsewhere since 2015. While progressive Europeans scoffed, a report by …

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Germans Pay The Highest Income Tax Last week, the OECD released the latest edition of its “Taxing Wages” report which focuses on the net personal average tax rate in different nations. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy points out, it takes into account income tax and social security contributions paid by employees without family benefits as a share of …

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German Foreign Minister Demands IAEA Analyze Israel's Evidence Against Iran Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to review Israeli accusations against Iran “as soon as possible,” in order to “clarify whether it actually provides evidence of a violation,” reports Bild. After the Israeli revelations about a secret continuation …

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Millennial Homeownership Rate Collapses In Britain Theresa May could be entirely correct. Britain’s real estate market is severely dysfunctional and needs to be reformed. Homeownership for millennials has collapsed over the past three decades; the investigation reveals that millennials are facing a housing crisis from London to Manchester. The homeownership rate for millennials aged 25- …

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UK's "Generation Rent" Faces Ever-More Unaffordable Homes For the so-called ‘Generation Rent’, the dream of buying a house is usually a distant and unrealistic one. And, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, figures from the Office for National Statistics show the dream is only moving further away, too. You will find more infographics at Statista Furthermore, when comparing the …

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Yemen War Great For US Jobs: Watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer Proclaim Civilian Deaths Are Worth It With the still largely ignored Saudi slaughter in Yemen now in its fourth year, RT’s In The Now has resurrected a forgotten clip from a 2016 CNN interview with Senator Rand Paul, which is currently going viral. In a piece of …

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