French Assembly Poisoned by Debates Over Pension Reform
In the war currently underway in the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon, all blows—even low ones— seem to be allowed.
In the war currently underway in the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon, all blows—even low ones— seem to be allowed.
Germany received 244,000 asylum applicants in 2022, with officials now looking at plans to incentivise legal migration through schemes and transfer more of the burden to North Africa.
While the Right failed to take the majority, the swing of Berlin’s vote raises questions about Germany’s future direction.
It remains uncertain how Berlusconi’s controversial statements will affect the unity of Italy’s center-right governing coalition.
Demonstrators protest a planned judicial reform that they believe will render Israel’s system of checks and balances if not compromised, practically non-existent.
The French public widely supports the nationalisation of the energy company, especially since the country has been plunged into an energy crisis.
“We are the strongest peace party. It’s not a coincidence that one day after our unveiling of the peace initiative we jumped over the Greens, who are the number one war party. This shows what the people in Germany really want,” AfD MP Petr Bystron told The European Conservative.
Chega is preparing to govern, but it won’t happen under just any circumstances.
If they wish to be governing forces like in Hungary and Israel, conservatives must not mind being hated.
The debate over judicial reforms has become heated as opposition figures are accused of calling for violence.
Now more than ever, Matteo Salvini is essential to the maintenance of the Draghi government.
In the latest push to come up with new COVID measures, Germany is considering the introduction of an automatic mask mandate in the period “from October till Easter” in the years ahead,” a measure compared by leading politicians of the SPD to using winter tires.
Due to its recent electoral success, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National can legitimately claim the presidency of the Finance Committee. After the presidency and vice-presidency of the Assembly, this is the most important office in the French legislature.
If the Bulgarian parliament fires the prime minister, it may spell doom for the country’s plans to enter the euro zone in 2024.
VOX won 14 seats, increasing its presence in the local government by two deputies, but seeing its influence diminished compared to the last regional parliament, and achieving results far from the hoped for 20 seats.
The biggest surprise of the election is the performance of the RN, which won 89 seats—11 times more than in the previous elections. The pollsters were totally focused on the NUPES and clearly failed to anticipate this tidal wave.
Official figures have revealed that the number of Syrian nationals granted German citizenship increased by 185% in 2021 compared to the previous year, as many of those who arrived during the migrant crisis of 2015-16 became eligible for naturalization.
During the June local elections in Italy, Giorgia Meloni welcomed the return of a “healthy [political] bipolarity” with a clearly identified Right and Left.
Without this multi-billion euro shot in the arm, the firm may be unable to provide the volume of gas that Germany and the EU require.
The Czech Republic had tried to authorize same-sex marriage between 2018 and 2021 without success. This time, conditions are more favourable.
These results expose the fragile security of Emmanuel Macron, who certainly won the presidential election with a majority of 58% but remains highly contested in the country, with a double opposition, on his left and on his right.
Emmanuel Macron’s invocations of “European sovereignty” notwithstanding, the nation—not Europe, nor the entire world—remains the only viable locus for the exercise of democratic power.
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