Swedish Parliament Elects New Leadership
The winning center-right coalition and the opposition Left have an admirable plan: to build consensus around the parliamentary leadership.
The winning center-right coalition and the opposition Left have an admirable plan: to build consensus around the parliamentary leadership.
By constitutional procedure, a prime minister is elected on a negative-vote premise: unless a majority votes against him, Kristersson will become prime minister.
In Seville, one of the hottest and most touristic cities in the country, restaurant and shop owners have come out in full rebellion against the measure, calling it one more step in undermining small businesses.
The divergence in vision between the regional farming authorities and Trudeau’s federal government could not be starker.
Several women featured on the poster have come forward, stating that they were not asked to participate in this campaign.
Government officials, elected and unelected, increasingly see democracy as an inconvenience, even an obstacle. How far down the current path does Europe have to go before the Italian example from a century ago becomes a case of retroactive clairvoyance?
Despite ties to far-left extremist groups, climate activists of Letzte Generation have access to more than €150,000 in federal subsidies from the German Ministry of Economics.
Reem Alabali-Radovan, the federal commissioner for migration, refugees, and integration, says the policy will help transform Germany into a “modern immigration country.”
No leading personality stands out in the rather dull team that Emmanuel Macron has in place. Competent perhaps to manage current affairs—not so much to direct an ambitious political course.
On July 3rd, farmers convened en masse in their tractors and blocked the German-Dutch border. Others protested by dumping manure in front of several public buildings. Reuters reports that on July 4th, they also blocked roads and supermarket distribution centres.
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