Ameblo Alilandulo

Who amplified it? A coalition that should make you raise an eyebrow. 🇷🇺 Russian state TV (RT) 🇮🇷 Iranian state media (HispanTV) 🇶🇦 Hamas-aligned Quds News Network 🇹🇷 TRT (Turkish state broadcaster) 🇧🇷 Sputnik Brasil … AND Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, MTG, and Max Blumenthal. Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Alt Right dissidents. All posting the same thing. At the same time. Ask yourself: when does that happen naturally?

Why are groceries in the Balkans sometimes more expensive than in Western Europe? Because in the entire Balkans - there is not a single free floating currency. ALL Balkan currencies are either pegged to the EUR or tightly managed against the EUR. 💶 🇪🇺 Locals think in terms of EUR and not their local currency when it comes to anything more expensive than grocery shopping. It's not like this in Central Europe. Hungarians, Poles and Czechs mainly think in terms of their local currencies. The cost of pegging your currency with the EUR is give up on monetary freedom 👇 1. Your currency becomes artificially strong, which hurts your local producer's export competitiveness whilst encouraging foreign imports. Balkan wages are lower but tradeable goods prices converge to Western levels because the exchange rate is not allowed to depreciate. With this chocolate bar example, on Polish or Czech supermarket shelves, there are much more domestically produced chocolate options than in the Balkans. 2. Can't cut rates to stimulate during recession (or you will face a carry trade attack) 3. Government can't inflate away debt as easily It's very difficult for the Balkans to reverse course now. Romania is the most redeemable case in the region, as the currency is managed rather than pegged. The central bank can still allow the RON to gradually depreciate as they have done over the years, whilst compensating investors with higher yields. It's good that in Poland, Hungary and Czechia - public support for Euro adoption is increasingly low!

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BREAKING: Israeli PM Netanyahu announces he was diagnosed, treated for prostate cancer

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue. She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.