Bad news for Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris. His Fine Gael party, which is part of the popular family in Europe and was expected to win this week’s elections, is in free fall in the polls and risks finishing in third position. Instead, the main nationalist and left-wing opposition party, Sinn Fein, is now growing and at 20 percent of ...
Sweden wants to see clearly the case of the Chinese ship suspected of having cut two underwater fiber optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea last 17 and 18 November. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wants to continue the investigation into the vessel flying the flag of the People’s Republic, which is now anchored off the coast of Denmark, where ...
A vote against France’s budget policy could drag the entire eurozone into a serious economic crisis. The ghost that many experts evoke is that of Greece about ten years ago, which caused serious shocks in the old continent. At the moment everything depends on Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far right determined to reject the budget proposed ...
Former leader of the Greens in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts, will be one of the advisors to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The choice serves to reassure i Greens on the fact that the new executive does not intend to abandon the Green Deal and to rely, in this legislature, on the votes of the radical right of ...
Giorgia Meloni’s Conservatives and Reformists (Ecr), the group to which Fratelli d’Italia belongs, are in all respects part of the alliance that supports Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission. In short, a new majority is emerging in Parliament, ranging from the Greens to the radical right. The new majority The leader of the People’s Party in the Community Assembly, Manfred Weber, ...
Rafal Trzaskowski will be the candidate of the current Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party in the next presidential elections in Poland. If he wins, both the prime minister and the president will be the expression of the same political movement: the Civic Coalition. Problems with the government Trzaskowski is mayor of Warsaw, but he had already run for president in ...
A low profile and not yet very well known but already starting to be talked about. Karol Nawrocki, 41 years old, historian and currently director of the Institute for National Remembrance in Poland (Ipn), has been designated by the conservative Law and Justice party (Pis) as a candidate for the next presidential elections, expected in the spring of 2025. The ...
Over six million Ukrainian refugees have flocked across Europe following Russia’s invasion of their country. The response from Kiev’s Western allies was immediate, especially to welcome women and children fleeing the war. In several countries these people have enjoyed special reception plans and simplified procedures compared to other asylum seekers, but a thousand days after the start of the conflict ...
Surprisingly, a Romanian far-right populist emerged victorious in the first round of the presidential elections held yesterday in Romania, prevailing over Social Democratic Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. This is Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate and admirer of Vladimir Putin, who the polls had not predicted could obtain such a consensus. With 99.9 percent of the votes counted, Georgescu was the ...
Next, the Europa Today newsletter that every Sunday morning tells you what will happen in the coming European week, edited by Alfonso Bianchi (for comments, suggestions or criticisms write to [email protected]). Top of the agenda The day of truth – After this week’s psychodrama in Brussels over Raffaele Fitto and Teresa Ribera, with the groups arguing until the last second ...