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«The Observer»: Extremism becomes a challenge for Macron
LONDON: The British Sunday newspaper “The Observer” comments on the election campaign in France:
Despite his lack of popularity – 54 percent of French voters disapprove of his leadership – Emmanuel Macron is widely expected to win a second five-year term in the presidential election, the first round of which takes place next Sunday. But it is already clear who, although not winning the election, did dominate the election campaign: the populist forces of far-right nationalism, grouped around the candidatures of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour. (…)
That is the big challenge in a second term for Macron. Like Britain, France is grappling with the devastating effects of deindustrialization, globalization and austerity. Right (and left) extremism is booming among working-class voters who feel betrayed and forgotten. As with Brexit and Trump-leaning America, migrants, Muslims and minorities of all kinds are being demonized by a divisive discourse that is fatal to society.”
“NZZ am Sonntag”: The Red Cross is committed to all war victims
ZURICH: The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag” comments on the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Ukraine war:
«The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gets caught between the fronts in the Ukraine war. For weeks, claims have been circulating in both Russian and Ukrainian that the organization is helping Ukrainians to be forcibly evacuated to Russia. In addition, the organization wants to open an office in southern Russia to filter out Ukrainians. The ICRC vehemently denies the allegations. (…)
The lack of understanding for the neutral position of the ICRC is all the more worrying as it is at the heart of it. The organization is not just a charity, it is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions. It is committed to the civilians, the injured and the prisoners of all parties to the conflict. Exactly this seems to be forgotten in the hatred of this war. The consequences of the campaign – no matter who directed it – are fatal: an attack has already been carried out on a Red Cross office in Ukraine. This harms those whom the organization wants to help: the civilians. A world in which a neutral institution can no longer function is a bleak world.”
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