From 2024, draftees will remain in the military more than twice as long as they do now, President Tsai Ing-wen has said Taiwan is poised to extend compulsory military service from four months to a year, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, calling the move “incredibly difficult” but necessary, amid heightened tensions between Taipei and…
The German and French leaders should retire after suffering damaging EU election defeats, the former Russian president has argued German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron should abandon politics after their respective parties suffered damaging setbacks in the European Parliament elections, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban used an old expression to describe ‘a great distance’ when discussing how close Kiev is to becoming a member Hungary believes that Ukraine is very far from becoming a member of the EU and Budapest will not change its stance on accession talks in exchange for a hypothetical unfreezing of…