Prosecute the victim, hide the charges: Tusk prosecutor pursues ex-minister
Poland’s prosecutors have filed an indictment against a former government minister after his email in which he had kept government correspondence was hacked.
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Is Peter Magyar panicking? Hungarian opposition suddenly looks shaky
Hungary is probably the only country in Europe where, just over a month before the elections on April 12, the picture might be so unclear, so foggy.
Russo-Chinese allies disappear: A seismic shift as Trump puts the heat directly on China
It is emerging that the overwhelming US and Israeli defeat of the armed forces and repressive police of the Islamic Republic of Iran is already beginning to alter…
Romanian court says evidence against Georgescu ‘obtained unlawfully’
The Bucharest Court of Appeal has ruled that much of the evidence against former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu was obtained unlawfully, effectively undermining…
Swiss vote to enshrine use of cash in Constitution, end tax penalty for married couples
Swiss citizens have voted on several contentious issues in four nationwide referenda – approving a constitutional right to use cash, ending tax penalties for married…
Germany’s CDU loses to Greens in state election, reversing polls
The German Greens Party has narrowly won the state parliament elections in the populous state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
Poland’s opposition PiS unveils its candidate for Prime Minister
Poland’s largest opposition party, the Conservatives (PiS), unveiled the former education minister Przemysław Czarnek as its candidate for Prime Minister for…
Hungarian elections: The EU’s dangerous wishful thinking
After Poland, Georgia, and Romania, it was clear that the Hungarian elections would be the next testing ground for the EU’s electoral interventionism, with the…
Two new suspects arrested over the Lyon killing of Deranque
Two men aged 22 and 26 have been arrested in the Lyon region in connection with the killing of Quentin Deranque.
Greens overtake Labour to hit second place in UK poll
The Green Party has surged into second place in the latest UK voting intention poll, leapfrogging the governing Labour Party for the first time in YouGov’s tracking.
French RN party chief Bardella demands cordon sanitaire against LFI
Jordan Bardella, president of the French National Rally (RN) party, has issued a direct appeal to France’s centre-left to impose a “cordon sanitaire” on the…
Criminal complaint over financing for Romanian President blocked by immunity
Romania’s Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has confirmed that a criminal complaint against President Nicușor Dan was filed with the General Prosecutor's Office…
Greenpeace ordered to pay €292m to US energy firm for damaging pipeline
A North Dakota judge has signalled he will order Greenpeace entities to pay an expected $345 million (€292 million) in damages to the US firm Energy Transfer over…
UK’s Labour suffers crushing by-election loss to Green Party
In a Manchester constituency under uninterrupted Labour Party control since 1935, the UK Green Party has secured its first-ever Westminster by-election victory.
Denmark calls snap election for March amid strain with US
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that the country will hold a snap election following the dispute with the United States over Greenland.
Paris elections: Greens face criticism over candidates’ sexual profiling
In France, ahead of the municipal Paris elections in March, the Greens Party reportedly created a file specifying the sexual orientation of the candidates whom David…
UK Greens plan ‘housing and income’ for all illegal migrants
The UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski wants illegal migrants to be given free housing and paid an income with no requirement to work.
The UK: Will it become a hermit country wandering in a delusional fun house?
The blunderbuss British government of Keir Starmer, now wallowing in the upper teens in the polls, struggling to keep a paper-thin lead over the Conservatives, the…
Mélenchon wants French media conglomerates to be broken up or seized
Jean Luc Mélenchon, leader of radical left La France Insoumise (LFI), announced today at the party press conference that, if LFI wins the 2027 presidential election,…
Hungary accuses Kyiv of election meddling via Ukraine’s Druzhba pipeline strike
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting the Druzhba oil pipeline to interfere in Hungary's upcoming April elections
German police launch investigation against pensioner for calling Chancellor Merz ‘Pinocchio’ online
The police in Heilbronn in Southwestern Germany have launched an investigation against a pensioner who referred to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as “Pinocchio”…
‘Merz is the new Merkel’: German Chancellor sets course leftwards at party convention
The big party convention of Germany’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) has ended well for Chancellor Friedrich Merz, but may bode ill for the country as a whole.
German state broadcaster recalls US correspondent over AI clip of ICE arrest
German state broadcaster ZDF has called back its US correspondent in New York, blaming her for an incident in which an AI-generated clip was aired in the company’s…
Ten years on, is European populism on a road to nowhere?
Ever since populist-nationalism – or national-populism, if you like – broke through the establishment barriers in 2015/16 with Trump and Brexit, the general…
German court fines AfD politician €11,600 for use of stock photo allegedly showing Nazi salute
A state MP with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has been fined of €11,600 for printing an election poster that allegedly showed a man performing…
PM Tusk’s Polish coalition fragments as its centrist component falls apart
Poland’s ruling coalition is experiencing turbulence after a senior member of the government announced she and more than a dozen other MPs are leaving to form…
German superior court says speaking ban for AfD leader was unlawful
The Bavarian Administrative Court has decided that two German towns were wrong to issue speaking bans for a leading representative of the right-wing Alternative…
Prospective Dutch finance state secretary out for lying over studies
A nominee for Dutch State Secretary of Finance tasked with overseeing a contentious reform of taxes on unrealised gains, has stepped down following revelations that…
Hungarian opposition leader says he’ll send Poles granted asylum by Orbán back home
The leader of Hungary’s main opposition party Tisza has promised that if elected into power he would send two Polish politicians granted asylum in his country…
Rubio visits Trump’s ‘friend’ Orban ahead of Hungary polls
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Hungary for talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orban today, ahead of elections where the nationalist leader faces…