NEED TO KNOW Auf Wiedersehen, Mutti GERMANY Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently warned her fellow Christian Democrats that the fourth wave […]

NEED TO KNOW A Spoon Full of Salt EUROPE Austria recently instituted a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, forbidding anyone without a […]

NEED TO KNOW Cold Truths, Hot Air WORLD World leaders, diplomats, environmentalists and fossil fuel industry executives who attended the COP26 climate […]

NEED TO KNOW The Marlboro Men MONTENEGRO The US and other international observers have turned a blind eye over the years to […]

NEED TO KNOW The Vanishing Villages ROMANIA The bodies of Romanians who perished in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have been placed in […]

NEED TO KNOW Round and Round We Go BULGARIA Bulgarians will vote in a total of four elections this year. Even so, […]

NEED TO KNOW Eastern Front POLAND Last month, the European Court of Justice ordered Poland to pay $1.2 million a day for […]

NEED TO KNOW Fed Up SWEDEN A gunman shot and killed Swedish rapper Einar recently in Stockholm. The 19-year-old, award-winning entertainer was […]

NEED TO KNOW Blah, Blah, Blah WORLD Recently, Larry Fink, the chief executive of Black Rock, one of the world’s biggest asset […]

NEED TO KNOW Justice’s Clock GERMANY Seventy-five years ago, the victorious allies of World War II concluded the trials in Nuremberg that […]

NEED TO KNOW Tiny Enclave, Loud Roar SAN MARINO One of the smallest countries in the world – its population is around […]

NEED TO KNOW Box Opened WORLD Svetlana Krivonogikh grew up working odd jobs in St. Petersburg, Russia. Today, however, she lives in […]

NEED TO KNOW The Iberian Model SPAIN Spain has decided to give third doses of coronavirus vaccines to seniors and others who […]

NEED TO KNOW Dissonance and Dreadlocks CZECH REPUBLIC The dreadlock-sporting leader of the Pirate Party in the Czech Republic, former software engineer […]

NEED TO KNOW The Unwelcome GREECE Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is vowing to “break and smash” the smuggling networks that are […]

NEED TO KNOW GERMANY Succession When German Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down from office after parliamentary elections on Sunday, she will leave […]

NEED TO KNOW POLAND Not Yet Convinced Around half of the people in Poland are fully vaccinated. The other half are leery […]

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA How to Win Big Boris Vishnevsky was shocked when he saw the names and faces of his two opponents […]

NEED TO KNOW NORWAY Eco Election Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg might become the first top politician to be ousted due to […]

NEED TO KNOW LITHUANIA Human Weapons Lithuania is building a 315-mile-long fence on its southern border. The structure has two functions: keeping […]

NEED TO KNOW UKRAINE & RUSSIA RealPolitik Erfan Kudusov and many other Tatars fled Crimea when Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014. […]

NEED TO KNOW ICELAND The Overachiever Iceland has long punched above its weight in tourism, scientific prowess, the arts and other realms […]

NEED TO KNOW UKRAINE Weaponizing Passports Russian officials have been issuing Russian passports to residents of eastern Ukraine, a region that has […]

NEED TO KNOW FRANCE Weaponizing Secularism Ever since French officials banned Muslim women from wearing face veils at schools in 2004, the […]