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Nawrocki wants French-style presidential system in Poland
The 47-member advisory body tasked with coming up with a new constitution includes constitutional lawyers, judges, academics and politicians.
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UK village votes for independence in symbolic protest against plans to house male asylum seekers
The Home Office wants to convert it into basic accommodation as part of a drive to empty asylum hotels.
YouGov puts CDU/CSU at record low as talk of replacing Merz grows
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.
Celtic nationalist leaders tie the break-up of the UK
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Poland’s PiS has its man chosen as leader of ECR
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…
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Irish, Scottish and Welsh leaders sign Cardiff pact demanding votes on leaving the UK
The three attended as party leaders rather than heads of government, two days after Donald Trump said he would like to see Ireland united.
Trump drops US neutrality and says Irish unification will happen
Washington has kept out of the question for decades, but the president repeated his call a day after Downing Street ruled out a border poll.
Most Europeans say the EU is in decline
Sixty-eight per cent of those interviewed described Europe in terms of “general deterioration or a loss of normality”.
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Little enthusiasm for AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt victory on Poland’s Right
President Nawrocki's senior aide Paweł Szefernaker said that the AfD's views on history and Russia were "unacceptable".
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Italy’s governing coalition splits over AfD victory
Salvini celebrated, Forza Italia strongly condemned the result, while Meloni remained silent amid concerns that it could strengthen AfD ally Roberto Vannacci.
Italian military prosecutor examines soldiers in Vannacci’s party
The case could nevertheless develop into a wider investigation into Futuro Nazionale and the possibility of its dissolution under Italy's anti-Fascist legislation.
Wagenknecht’s BSW implodes in Thuringia as MPs abandon party
Ten of the 12 remaining BSW members of the Thuringian parliament announced on Friday that they were leaving the party.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Iceland joins Norway: Fish and sovereignty keep the Nordic outsiders beyond Brussels’s reach
Rural constituencies delivered the majorities in both electorates, and left governments defending an arrangement they never chose.
Ben-Gvir posts prison video boasting of harsher conditions for Palestinian women
The Israeli national security minister released the footage two months before an election, as a proposal to place him on the EU sanctions list remains stalled in…
Armenian court orders two months in custody for Kocharyan’s son
Sedrak Kocharyan may receive visits only from his wife and children while prosecutors widen a case that now reaches a second former president.
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Meloni and Badenoch under pressure after Rome meeting
The pair have maintained a political relationship since 2023, when Badenoch was Britain's business and trade secretary.
Armenia detains former president Kocharyan a day after Pashinyan sets out EU bid
The leader of Armenia's main pro-Moscow opposition bloc faces charges of abuse of office, bribery and money laundering dating from his 1998-2008 presidency.
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US Supreme Court clears path for Trump mail-voting curbs before midterms
The 6-3 ruling lifted a lower-court injunction but left the legality of the executive order itself undecided.
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France places eight far-left activists under investigation over alleged explosives training
The Paris prosecutor's office sought pre-trial detention, which the investigating judge did not order.
EU deplores ‘deterioration’ of Hong Kong freedoms after vigil convictions
Judges found the organisers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil guilty of inciting subversion and both face up to 10 years in prison.
German ruling parties demand EU sanctions on Israel’s Ben-Gvir
Berlin has been among the capitals blocking EU-level measures against the Israeli national security minister.
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Russia presses Armenia to choose between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union
For Moscow, the accelerating European presence in Armenia threatens a long-standing sphere of economic, political and security influence.
Burnham exchanges messages with impostor posing as Trump’s chief of staff
Britain's embassy in Washington raised the security breach with the White House amid fears that Susie Wiles had been hacked for a second time.
Damascus court sentences Assad to death in absentia over war crimes
The ruling has landed as the European Union accelerates its re-engagement with Syria's new rulers and presses for the return of Syrian migrants.
Russian court removes only anti-war party from parliamentary ballot
The Central Election Commission had approved Yabloko's candidate list in late July alongside those of 10 other parties.
Farage pledges to send foreign prisoners from British jails to El Salvador
Reform UK is to send a delegation led by party chairman Lee Anderson to San Salvador to examine renting cells in Nayib Bukele's prison system