Donald Trump

Though Joe Biden is ahead the closeness of the race indicates that the criteria of American citizens in choosing their leader are entirely different than those of European pundits.

Now Donald Trump can offer a valuable service - he can through his illness persuade people about the importance of wearing masks and abiding by social distancing guidelines.

The athletes are demonstrating that they are not living in a gilded bubble and that they are not concerned only about their big contracts but that they also are pained and enraged by the injustices they see around them and above all injustices against African-Americans.

Boris Johnson fell victim to his own policy of implementing the theory of herd immunity yet he is by no means the only leader who downplayed the pandemic for the sake of the economy.

Thousands of scientists are saying the situation is urgent and that climate change is advancing more rapidly than they believed in the past.

It is patently obvious that it cannot be that 145 experts from 59 countries are wrong but those who deny climate change – unfortunately including US President Donald Trump – are right.

In Germany, which continued to move not only as a locomotive but as a high-speed train when the rest of the Eurozone was trailing, there are more and more voices supporting an exit from the EU, or Dexit.

The strategic cooperation of the two sides is now very deep. Athens has entirely embraced the “US energy doctrine”, which seeks to isolate Russia.