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Warsaw has pointed the finger at Moscow while the opposition accuses the ruling coalition of seizing the country's top court by force.
A five-party coalition has failed to agree how to find the savings needed to meet EU deficit rules, sending the Prime Minister to the King to offer his resignation.
The Commission has backed parliament's choice of judges but stayed silent on the suspension of the tribunal's president by one of them.
Ministers have countered that the head of state himself may have broken the law by entering the constitutional court at night.
The chief justice of the top court Bogdan Święczkowski was prevented from entering the building of the court he leads.
French education minister Édouard Geffray unveiled a package on October 26, alongside higher education minister Philippe Baptiste.
Fladeland said he hoped the federal government would step in to block further plans on expropriation.
Rival senator Giancarlo Garavaglia’s 24% share of the leadership vote highlights growing calls for a change of direction as the League struggles to regain voters…
The Nobel laureate's homecoming has revived demands for a presidential vote, with the European Union still split over its sanctions on Caracas.
Weidel said that if the Union were not rebuilt along those lines, the AfD would press for a referendum on Germany’s continued membership.
The Argentine President accused the Spanish Government of encouraging the invasion of Ceuta, five weeks before a general election.
The internal pushback coincides with broader policy disagreements regarding foreign affairs, law enforcement and migration.
Six days of student-led rioting have left the Balkan candidate country in its worst political crisis in years, with only four of 33 negotiating chapters closed.
The reform strips state officials of special severance and places them largely under ordinary labour law, a decade after Brussels made civil service protections…
Financial crimes police entered the building in Zeytinburnu before 6.30am, barring staff from entry as they conducted searches.
He stressed, though, that there was “a really important difference between interference attempted and outcome swayed”.
The former PM remarks reignite debate over national sovereignty, democratic choice and the European Commission’s use of financial pressure.
“After the death of my stepdaughter, I realised that I need time to come to terms with my grief. I want to take sufficient time for this,” she wrote.
No intelligence assessment has been published to support the claim, which lands as London reopens the question of its relationship with Brussels.
The company gave no reason, though German media have linked the move to the vote in Magdeburg.
Sahra Wagenknecht's party has pledged the votes that would put an AfD politician in the chair in Magdeburg, breaking the cordon sanitaire in a German State parliament…
The Hungarian opposition has asked the European Parliament to look at what it calls the building of an 'authoritarian regime' in Budapest.
He wants a Europe "on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power".
A conservative think tank close to Italy’s governing right has filed the challenge as the former League general faces mounting attacks from figures across Giorgia…
The 47-member advisory body tasked with coming up with a new constitution includes constitutional lawyers, judges, academics and politicians.
The Home Office wants to convert it into basic accommodation as part of a drive to empty asylum hotels.
The AfD took 43.8 per cent there on September 6, a record for the party in any state election, against 17.2 per cent for the CDU.
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Adam Bielan, a close ally of Jarosław Kaczyński, replaces Mateusz Morawiecki at the head of Europe's conservative party family, keeping the post in Law and Justice…
