Known as ‘Teflon Mark’ for having led four consecutive governments, PM Rutte expressed no interest in trading national politics for an important role at an international institution.
As multiple civil rights groups are sounding the alarm, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti tries to allay concerns. The emergence of a surveillance state as described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, he said, was a “far-off” prospect.
Slovakia’s social-democratic Smer party is in pole position to win the elections this September and has unsettled its EU partners with its pro-Kremlin sympathies and drift to the right, courting parties on the extreme right.
With snap elections called for the middle of the vacation season, voters and the post office were caught off guard.
The riots, which took place just days after the whole of France was engulfed in race riots for six nights, highlight how anti-police agitation and ethnic conflicts are a tinder box across Europe.
Between negotiating about Ukraine’s future and increased defense spending requirements, NATO leaders will also find time to war game how to respond to a concrete attack from Russia.
After a new UK government proposal to register homeschooled children, Jews and other religious groups are concerned the government may enforce secular topics, such as gender ideology, in their schools.
The repeated platforming of FEMYSO has been a thorn in the side of right-wing MEPs for years due to fears the youth organisations represent a Trojan horse for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
On the anniversary of his father’s death Omar bin Laden, son of notorious 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, allegedly praised his father on Twitter and has been indicted by French authorities for glorifying terror.
Outgoing PM Mark Rutte, whose famed staying power in Dutch politics had earned him the nickname ‘Teflon Mark’, is facing a strong challenge from both the BBB and the PVV, as his own party is reportedly already contemplating his successor.
“In terms of amplitude, official statistics suggest—for historians to verify—that nothing comparable has happened in French cities since the Revolution of 1789 or, at the very least, the weeks following the Revolution,” Pierre Brochand, the former DGSE chief, said.
While French authorities assure the public that the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral was accidental, many right-wing pundits continue to speculate that it was, in fact, an Islamic attack.
