Fall of Spanish government is a self-inflicted defeat
Spain’s minority PSOE (socialist) government has fallen and new elections are scheduled for 28 April.
Europe
Macron suffers major setback
The protestors of the ‘gilets jaunes’ (yellow vest) movement have inflicted a humiliating defeat on French President Macron. He has been forced to climbdown and, in a Presidential tv address, has offered a series of reforms in order to try to head off the movement, including a €100 a week increase in the minimum wage.
US launches ‘all-front’ offensive against China
In the course of 2018 the US launched an offensive against China on multiple fronts.
Tories are undermining agreements on Ireland
There is a systematic effort by the British government and its allies to renege on its international agreements and treaties in relation to Ireland.
Real breakthrough for Swedish far right is the concessions of other parties
The far right Sweden Democrats did not make the big electoral breakthrough in the latest general election that its supporters had threatened.
Theresa May reneges on agreed Irish deal. Corbyn offers a way forward
Theresa May’s speech in Belfast last Friday ripped up the agreed position on the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’ deal her government had reached with the EU-27 in December last year.