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Since President Donald Trump re-entered the White House, the United States has been sending a clear signal to its European partners: “You need to do more to defend…
Less than a year after coming into power, Portugal's Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's centre-right minority government has come under intense pressure and appeared…
Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing with a party source, on March 10, warning…
Canada's incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney, a citizen of both the UK and Ireland, has said he would now renounce both nationalities.
Călin Georgescu, frontrunner in the Romanian presidential elections to be re-run in May, has had his candidacy rejected by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) for…
Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Polish opposition Conservatives (PiS), has accused the European Commission of planning to intervene in the country’s presidential…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Călin Georgescu’s bid to overturn the annulment of Romania’s November 2024 presidential election, declaring…
German police have registered a record number of politically motivated criminal acts that occurred in the run-up to the country’s general election on February…
Lars Klingbeil, the co-chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and negotiator for the likely new government coalition, has criticised plans from the…
Polish MP Dariusz Matecki of the opposition Conservatives (PiS) has handcuffed himself on the podium of Poland’s parliament after he waived his own parliamentary…
A Romanian NGO has accused US tech billionaire Elon Musk of trying to sabotage the country’s democracy, claiming he was part of a “disinformation and intimidation”…
Sławomir Mentzen, the Polish presidential candidate of the right-wing Confederation party, has claimed that if war broke out Poland would only have enough ammunition…
Poland’s presidential election race took an unexpected twist as a result of an opinion poll putting Sławomir Mentzen from the right-wing Confederation party in…
Thousands of Romanians took to the streets of the capital Bucharest protesting against the annulment of the presidential elections in December and voicing support…
Major protests have erupted across Greece on the second anniversary of the Tempi rail disaster that left 57 people dead and the government scrambling for cover.
A day after its official announcement, Austria’s incoming government has drawn ire from across the political spectrum.
Two Berlin-based NGOs, Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF), have sued Elon Musk’s X under the European Union's Digital…
Russian intelligence services commissioned individuals in Poland to spray-paint offensive slogans attacking the then Conservative (PiS) government, it has been claimed.
If you ever needed proof that democracy in the European Union is now little more than a stage play, Romania has just provided it. The protagonist? Călin Georgescu.
Hungary said it would amend the Constitution soon to emphasise child protection, a move that paved the way for a ban on the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities,…
Greece's worst rail disaster in 2023 was due to chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, Greek investigators said on February 27.
The most shocking political events took place on February 26 in Bucharest, where the front-runner in Romania’s presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, was seized…
Romania’s presidential election front-runner Călin Georgescu has been taken in by police for questioning.
The European Commission is pushing for media literacy across the bloc via courses in "critical thinking and politics" aimed at secondary school students, or what…
According to the American essayist H.L. Mencken, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Almost four in five German Muslim voters backed left-wing parties in the country's national election, a new survey has shown.
Questions are mounting over the integrity of Germany’s snap federal election, with concerns largely focused on the hurdles faced by Germans living abroad.
Robert Habeck, Vice Chancellor of the outgoing German government and leader of the Greens party, has announced his resignation from all party positions.
Germany’s election results have delivered a crushing blow to the progressive "traffic light" government.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on February 23 that he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding that he could…
