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Fratelli d’Italia senator revives run-off plan for new electoral law
Around 697 amendments have been filed in the Senate committee, with a final vote set for September 15.
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Swedish court convicts activist who named sex offenders on Facebook
Aggravated defamation carries a maximum of two years in prison. The court said the posts had spread so widely that they could not be regarded as justifiable.
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Matteo Salvini’s League heads towards a showdown over its leadership
Pressure on Salvini to change the League's political direction, and to give up at least part of his grip on its leadership, has been building for months.
Mass arrests in the Netherlands after deadly shoot-out in international drug feud
At about 4am on September 1, more than 20 men in balaclavas, some wielding machine guns, approached a farmhouse on Ewijkseweg.
Police treat Cologne substation failure as deliberate attack
There was no reported loss of general electricity supply and Amprion said system stability was maintained throughout.
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Nawrocki says Poland-Germany relations cannot be normal without reparations
Poland's President appealed to the Germans to address the reparations issue which thus far they have refused to do and have argued that Poland renounced its reparations…
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Meloni set to become Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since 1946
Only four cabinets before Meloni passed 1,000 days: Berlusconi II, Berlusconi IV (1,287 days), Bettino Craxi I and Matteo Renzi.
Vincent Bolloré files complaint accusing Paris magistrates of criminal association
The complaint names, among others, judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez and Stéphane Noël, then president of the Paris judicial court.
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Vannacci’s new party becomes Italy’s fourth force seven months after launch
Both readings place it behind only Brothers of Italy, the Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement.
Chechen convicted over Samuel Paty murder returns to jail after amusement park trip
Azim Epsirkhanov, convicted for his role in the murder of Samuel Paty, received an additional year in prison for violating house arrest by visiting Parc Astérix.
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Austrian Chancellor Stocker calls for constitutional ban on ‘political Islam’
Pressed on how he would obtain the two-thirds parliamentary majority such a law would need, the chancellor said he did not know.
‘Back to the Middle Ages’: Antwerp court ends email filing in criminal cases as budget runs short
Until now the Antwerp court had accepted electronic submissions and printed them so that the official paper file could be compiled.
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Poland suspects sabotage behind fires at plants linked to drone production
The losses incurred as a result of the fire have been put by prosecutors at about zł21 million (€5 million).
Portugal’s president enacts faster expulsion of illegal immigrants after Chega abstention
The Constitutional Court cleared the text days earlier after the president queried detention limits and safeguards for children.
Sánchez turns on the Spanish King over Ceuta hours before meeting him
The Spanish Prime Minister said Felipe VI had never set foot in the city, in a reign he overstated by eight years.
Italy extends Schengen suspension on Spain as Madrid answers in kind
Rome says the conditions that triggered its border checks on August 1 still stand, a month after tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta.
Merz says Germany close to response over suspected Leipzig drone attack
Speaking on ARD public television's summer interview, Merz said investigators were "in the process of concluding the investigation".
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UK forced marriage unit takes 100 referrals for children aged 12 or under
The Home Office declined to give the age of the youngest child referred over the period, saying disclosure could deter others from coming forward.
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Tusk defunds top court in 2027 Polish record deficit budget
The projected deficit leaves Poland under continued pressure to bring its public finances into line with EU fiscal rules.
Polish opposition politicians accused of corruption over failed cryptocurrency exchange
The PKOl official denies the allegations and says he bought the watch with his own money, with Kral simply helping facilitate the purchase.
French Greens split over rallying behind Mélenchon for presidency
Calls to drop the party's own candidate and back the left-wing veteran are growing louder, though its 2022 standard-bearer Yannick Jadot has defected to rival Raphaël…
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AfD politicians barred from video game fair Gamescom
MEP Mary Khan said "With the AfD leading the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, Gamescom will soon discover that political reality is not so easy to switch off".
German nuclear group files complaint against public broadcaster for inflating atom costs and cheapening wind
Nuklearia e.V. said NDR presented the project as if Warsaw were spending about €45 billion on something a wind park could do for €5 billion.
Bronze Age gold vanishes in four-minute Spanish museum raid
The hoard was found in 1963 by the archaeologist José María Soler in a vessel buried in a dry riverbed.
Foreign suspects in German sex offence cases more than double since 2000
A German Government reply to a nationalist MP records a 148.2 per cent rise over 25 years, with suspects in threat offences up 231.5 per cent
German industry pushes Merz towards a harder China line
For years the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the big car, chemical and machinery groups treated China as a market first and a rival second.
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Poland seeks ‘several’ US bases but rules out nuclear warheads
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth unveiled the review at a NATO defence ministerial in Brussels on June 18 and Colby formally launched it on July 27.
Tisza deputy leader appears in emails with state holiday contract winner before tender opens
Ákos Hadházy has published correspondence he says shows the winning firm gathering budget and supplier data weeks before the procurement began.
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Police raid AfD candidates 10 days before Saxony-Anhalt vote
Among those whose properties were searched are Simon Lansmann and Sebastian Koch, both AfD candidates for the Saxony-Anhalt State parliament.
Business park rises on Austrian Nazi women’s camp site sold by mayor’s firm
Bulldozers have moved on to the Hirtenberg subcamp grounds south of Vienna after the Federal Monuments Office ruled that the surviving barrack foundations did not…