The crux of the matter for the PSOE was the high number of votes the polls predicted the rival party, the centre-right Partido Popular (PP) would win.

Habeck’s warning comes as the volume of Russian gas traveling to Germany and Eastern Europe is set to be drastically reduced when transit agreements between Ukraine and the Russian Federation expire in 2024.

A Berlin group that organises black-only children’s camping trips has come under fire over accusations of racism and says threats have forced to them increase security.

The Rijksmuseum bills the Standard Bearer, a self-portrait in which “one can feel the courage, swagger and rebelliousness bursting from the canvas!” as one of Rembrandt’s key works.

The Socialist Party stands out as the only left-wing group where a majority wants to restrict the right to asylum.

Faced with a growing number of protests, several cities have had to back down and adapt the restrictions, which were deemed too severe.

Solar parks, requiring regular water use for cleaning, are being recklessly approved in a country already devastated by drought.

Warsaw is putting its foot down. “We will not pay for the mistakes of European multicultural policy. We know how to distinguish solidarity from coercion and dangerous ideological projects,” Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki said.

Researchers accuse the professor of having conducted his experiments “outside any ethical or legal framework.” In their view, this is an “enormous health scandal;” to Professor Raoult, they are “a tribune of fools.”

The AfD, now the second most popular party in Germany according to the latest polls, is likely to see more of the same from the Left, SPD, Greens, FDP, and CDU as it performs increasingly well at the state and federal levels.

The EU is resisting lobbying by the Gulf States to drop sanctions against Assad as recent terrorist attacks and deaths on the Mediterranean underlined Syria’s continued relevance to EU policymakers.

The independent economist Ľudovít Ódor is the third Slovakian Prime Minister to have his mandate revoked by political scheming in two years.