“If PiS does win, the Visegrád alliance which has been dormant since the outbreak of war in Ukraine could revive to the benefit of conservatives in Central Europe.”

Brussels is making a stab at Ireland’s corporate tax collection before the European elections with a proposal that would increase the country’s annual EU contribution by 50%.

Record-low support for her party in both Hesse and Bavaria means Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has “gambled away her credibility,” a CDU official said.

Putin has long been advocating for independent Palestinian statehood. Meanwhile, Chechen leader Kadyrov already offered to send “peacekeepers” into Israel to help “restore order.”

Kingmaker parties could determine whether Slovakia follows a sovereigntist or globalist path.

The well-attended march is a warning to the acting prime minister.

“We don’t want Lampedusa here,” a large banner at the game of Warsaw’s largest football club said over the weekend.

Voters in Bavaria and Hesse have severely punished the leftist government in Berlin.

The truth appears to be that Irish Catholicism was easy to abandon, because it seemed so hard to love.

There is a passivity about poll-watching, as if we were ancients reading the runes or chicken entrails in a bid to foretell a future that is beyond our control.

Bavaria and Hesse appear to indicate a rightward shift in the country.

Čaputová, a supporter of military aid to Ukraine, said she made the decision out of respect for last week’s election outcome.