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Jordan Bardella, head of National Rally (RN) in France, presented his party's strategy for June’s European Parliament elections, "clarifying" its intentions regarding…
Scottish pro-Palestine politician and media pundit George Galloway won a landslide victory in the Rochdale by-election in Northern England.
Committee of the Regions, Brussels
Generative AI has made its first widespread appearance in 2024 in Russia, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
US Big Tech giants Instagram and Facebook will launch a dedicated European Union-specific Elections Operations Centre for June's European Parliament elections in…
Minister Giorgia Meloni’s centre-right bloc suffered a setback after the island of Sardinia elected a left-wing president.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's centre-right bloc suffered a setback after the island of Sardinia elected a left-wing president.
A local councillor in the Netherlands is taking his own Green party to court, over its alliance with Labour ahead of June 2024's European Parliament elections.
Angry farmers stormed Paris's annual agricultural fair during President Emmanuel Macron's visit February 24.
PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński has demanded the resignation of his party’s top brass MEPs, in order to substitute them ahead of this year's European elections.
Silesia, Poland
The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved so much influence in Brussels that local politicians now need its support to win elections, according to a French academic who…
Galicia, Spain Is Spain about to be pulled apart by its regional identities? Recent events in the country appear to suggest that this could be the case.
Germany politician Wagenknecht on February 20 told reporters she is considering abandoning plans to join the EP's Left parliamentary group in favour of founding…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been chosen by her German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to be their lead candidate in June's European election…
Fabrice Leggeri, who led the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex between 2015 and 2022, will be a top candidate on France's National Rally list for the…
The elections in Spain’s Autonomous Community of Galicia have strengthened the region’s separatist movement.
“Democracy,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a one-year prison term for illegal campaign finance by the French Court of Appeal, marking a reduction…
Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has threatened to censor politicians it deems to be promoting "misinformation" in the run-up to elections in Europe later…
Britain's economy fell into a recession in the second half of 2023, a tough backdrop for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has promised to boost growth ahead of an…
Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has suggested Kim Putters, chairman of the Social Economic Council (SER) and member of the Socialist Party, to be…
With the latest polls showing the UK Labour Party commanding a 25 per cent lead over the governing Conservatives, European Union leaders may think a Labour victory…
The forthcoming 2024 elections in Germany could leave the country "ungovernable", a historian has warned.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the Spanish opposition, would be open to negotiate a “conditional pardon” to former president of the Catalonia region,…
The German Right achieved small but “significant” electoral gains after a partial re-run of the 2021 federal elections in parts of Berlin.
Poland’s former ruling Conservatives (PiS) is pushing for the European Conservative Reformers (ECR) to adopt senior MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski as its candidate for…
Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on February 10 after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse…
Alexander Stubb of the centre-right National Coalition Party narrowly won Finland's presidential election on Sunday, defeating liberal Green Party member Pekka…
The European Union has condemned what it called "acts of violence, which took place in the lead up to the elections" in Pakistan.
