Germany’s Traffic Light Coalition Hits Red as SPD-Green Party Congresses Unravel
Internal division over migration appears to be tearing Germany’s governing coalition apart.
Internal division over migration appears to be tearing Germany’s governing coalition apart.
A look back at two years of Olaf Scholz’s disastrous government.
The coalition formation talks are expected to be longer and more arduous than what is common even in Dutch politics.
While a majority of those surveyed see no issue, Pieter Omtzigt, the leader of the upstart NSC party leading the polls, does not want that coalition to include Geert Wilders’ PVV party, currently polling fourth.
Public stance taken by La France Insoumise deemed antisemitic by NUPES coalition partners
The only party to fully back the demand by farmers is PiS.
The ruling Law and Justice Party is making a final stab at remaining in power.
Conservative PiS hasn’t given up hope of forming a government, despite election setbacks.
Parts of the Austrian intelligence community are lining up against the FPÖ as the party hopes to return to power in 2024.
Finland’s four-party coalition government is in jeopardy after a media campaign against senior Finns Party over past racist statements led junior members to consider withdrawing support.
Public stance taken by La France Insoumise deemed antisemitic by NUPES coalition partners
The only party to fully back the demand by farmers is PiS.
The ruling Law and Justice Party is making a final stab at remaining in power.
Conservative PiS hasn’t given up hope of forming a government, despite election setbacks.
Parts of the Austrian intelligence community are lining up against the FPÖ as the party hopes to return to power in 2024.
Finland’s four-party coalition government is in jeopardy after a media campaign against senior Finns Party over past racist statements led junior members to consider withdrawing support.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has expressed anger and demanded answers after a Nigerian homeless migrant with a prior criminal record was arrested for beating a woman so viciously she later died.
In a not-too-subtle dig at the MR party, the sole holdout among all seven coalition partners, Belgium’s Finance Minister said that “today we must conclude that not everyone is able to leave their trench and to show the courage to make decisions in the interest of all.”
Nehammer’s words come as the FPÖ, led by Herbert Kickl, is by far the most popular party in Austria, nearly double digits ahead of the establishment ÖVP, which has seen its support plummet due to its draconian COVID-19 vaccine policy and support for war sanctions that have had disastrous effects on the economy.
Socialists and liberals would like to force Italy and Greece to keep their ports open for migrant rescue NGOs, which are frequently accused by conservatives of colluding with traffickers to bring migrants into Europe.
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.
The proposed budget cuts would affect all government departments except defense, labor, and welfare.
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