Protests in Spain
The young Spanish generation has been going to the streets in major cities like Madrid and Barcelona for more than a week now. At first, the protests were a reaction to the arrest of the rapper Pablo Hasel, but now the protests have developed into a much bigger movement. The pandemic has hit Spain’s youth very hard; over 40% of young Spaniards now find themselves unemployed, the highest number in the EU. The current situation is a far-cry from the Barcelona that once was one of the “best places in Europe” for young people.
The Former French President Found Guilty of Corruption
It is the second time in modern French history that a former president was convicted of a crime. The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to at least one year in prison this past week on charges of corruption. Sarkozy supposedly gained confidential information from a judge after offering to help the judge get a job.
Other News
- Britain and the EU have had some major disagreement this past week. The path to a “normal” relationship between the two parties remains a rocky one.
- Last Sunday, the Hong Kong authorities charged 47 pro-democracy activists of violating the new Chinese Security Law.
- New charges have been raised after the civil leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by Myanmar’s military which staged a coup a few weeks ago. She now faces a prison sentence of up to 9 years.
- The U.S. announced sanctions against Russia on Tuesday on the accusation of poisoning Aleksei Navalny
- Three female journalists were shot in Afghanistan last week on their way home from work
- After hundreds of Nigerian girls were abducted from their boarding school last week, their kidnappers have now released them
