What is really at stake with the elections in Germany In two weeks the Germans will renew the Parliament, a few months in advance of the natural expiry of the September legislature. The “traffic light” government led by Olaf Scholz did not hold up, the coalition broke out at the beginning of autumn, forcing the parties to anticipate their plans. ...
In Kosovo, the outgoing premier Albin Kurti seems destined for a second term, even if this time he will need allies to govern. After the 90 percent bare of the cards, his Vetevendosje party (self -determination) obtained about 41 percent of the consents. Also according to the last counts, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), on the right, arrived second ...
They call it the last dictatorship in Europe. This is how Belarus is defined, which has been led by Alexander Lukashenko since 1994. The Belarusian leader is now seeking a new mandate, his seventh in a row since he came to power. His hopes may be confirmed on January 26, when the presidential elections will be held: in this electoral ...
Bulgaria has finally managed to form a new government, with the Sofia Parliament giving its confidence to a coalition executive led by the Gerb People’s Party. The hope is to put an end to the longest political crisis in the history of the Balkan country since the end of Soviet communism. Political instability Bulgaria has faced seven elections in four ...
The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against TikTok for its alleged failure to limit election interference. Brussels said it would ask for information and investigate the social media’s policy on political advertising and paid political content, as well as systems for generating recommendations and risks of manipulation. The investigation will concern the suspected violation of the Digital Services Act ...
The social platform TikTok has removed 66 thousand accounts and 10 million fake followers since September. This was stated by Brie Pegum, global head of the social network, in a hearing in a European Parliament committee. The accusations After the first round of the presidential elections, the far-right and pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu, who obtained a relative majority by going ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What the elections in Liguria, Emilia Romagna and Umbria tell us Many wonder how it was possible that the mayor of Terni, Stefano Bandecchi, was unable to bring in the avalanche of votes that the Northern League member Donatella Tesei would have needed to maintain the seat of president of Umbria. Yet those spits in the face of a citizen ...