POLITICO 28 — Class of 2025
THE TIME TRAVELLER 1. Friedrich Merz. Friedrich Merz wishes he owned a time machine. The head of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union doesn’t much care for what his longtime rival, Angela Merkel, did during her time as chancellor.Merz believes his predecessor as party leader committed major blunders when she phased out the country’s nuclear power …
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Trump’s in. Here’s what it means for Europe. – POLITICO
Nov 6, 2024 · Trade “America First” will again sum up Trump’s approach to trade policy. He’s vowed to bring back jobs to the U.S. and punish friends and foes with across-the-board tariffs of 10 or 20 percent (and up to 60 percent on goods coming from China), despite economists’ warnings of a detrimental impact on U.S. economic growth and higher costs for consumers.
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The U.S. president hinted he’ll spare Britain from his trade war, while hammering the EU. But as Nigel Farage surges in the polls, Keir Starmer isn’t safe from Brexit yet.
Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, poll finds
Aug 13, 2024 · Keir Starmer has stressed that Labour will not seek to rejoin the EU itself or its single market or customs union under his premiership. The 61-year-old PM has said rejoining will not happen within his lifetime.. YouGov found that a majority of voters (51 percent) believe Labour’s landslide election victory does not give Starmer a mandate to rejoin the EU — …
Romanian election: What the hell is going on? – POLITICO
Dec 7, 2024 · What’s happening? This Sunday, Romanians were due to vote in the second-round runoff election for their next president. They had two candidates to pick from: center-right small-town mayor Elena Lasconi; or Călin Georgescu, a far-right independent who was catapulted from obscurity into the lead in the first round of voting on Nov. 24.. On Friday, Romania’s …
Spain’s parliament confirms Pedro Sánchez as prime minister
Nov 16, 2023 · Although Sánchez long maintained that such a blanket pardon was impossible because it would contravene Spain’s Constitution, on Monday his party filed a bill to grant an amnesty to people involved in the Catalan independence movement during the past decade.. Anger over the controversial proposal prompted hundreds of thousands of Spaniards to take to …
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POLITICO Poll of Polls — European Election results, polls and …
Coalition CEUS (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea - Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Coalición Canaria, El Pi - Proposta per les Illes Balears, Agrupación Atarrabia - Atarrabia Taldea, Geroa Socialverdes de Navarra en Europa - Geroa Nafarroako Sozialberdeak Europan)
Mapped: Europe’s rapidly rising right – POLITICO
May 24, 2024 · Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls.Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, is …