Greek Center-Right Wins Big Victory; Wants Majority
New Democracy’s victory is the first time in 40 years that a ruling party in Greece has increased its share of the vote in a parliamentary election.
New Democracy’s victory is the first time in 40 years that a ruling party in Greece has increased its share of the vote in a parliamentary election.
Both the novel and the memoir touch on themes that are sadly out of fashion today: the brotherhood of arms crossing ethnic and cultural divides, individual bravery in battle, and the manly quest to build empires.
With the U.S. president’s approval, fellow NATO allies can also begin the process of delivering F-16s to Ukraine later this year.
A renewal of the European institutions is necessary, as they seem far removed from the real situations experienced by millions of Italians and Europeans.
Biden remains reluctant to transfer F-16s to Kyiv, but would allow other allies to do so. The problem seems to be that not a single one has requested them so far.
The dismissal of one of Germany’s most influential green policymakers has triggered discord in Berlin’s ruling coalition, as public opinion turns against the once-popular Green Party.
While a clear parliamentary majority seems unlikely, the center-right New Democracy is set to win Sunday’s election, and in large part due to the promise of building a wall and having the EU pay for it.
Replacing Gabriel will be two other commissioners, Denmark’s Margrethe Vestager and Greece’s Margaritis Schinas, who for the time being will take on her duties.
With its 683,000 inhabitants and 474,500 eligible voters, Bremen is not considered a political bellwether for other parts of the country.
While Germany’s new package comprises the kind of arms it had supplied previously, fighter jets—ever high on Kyiv’s wish list—are not among them.
German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser wants to purge “anti-democrats” from the civil service. An amendment of the disciplinary law will place the burden of proving one’s innocence on the accused.
The goal would be to even out differences between parts of the city in terms of “unemployment, educational level, and crime.”
The film does a manful job depicting conditions from which few people escape alive, and no soul remains unscarred.
Indeed, why should a policy of unlimited free trade and ‘small government’ per se be conservative?
After 30 years of Irish Catholic and British Protestant sectarian violence, ended by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, many say Ursula von der Leyen should have chosen her words with more care.
A year out from a general election in Spain and the political vitriol is running high.
Various media reports say that for some weapon systems, Germany may only have enough ammunition for a few hours of combat should war break out.
Vlaams Belang Chairman Tom Van Grieken’s name came up third in the list of those politicians by whom the Flemish feel best represented.
The father of one of the girls in the photos called the photo session an ‘“enjoyable day out” and a “fantastic time.”
Presently, there’s little evidence to suggest that farmers won’t resist the government’s plan for compulsory sales. How far the farmers are willing to go to resist, however, remains to be seen.
During the protest, the party’s leader delivered a speech which referred to the destruction of the country’s institutions, the loss of Spanish sovereignty, and the need for a patriotic reaction.
“The Left understanding of democracy no longer exists in Berlin. Totalitarian ideas, against laws and democracy,” Herald Vilimsky, the Freedom Party of Austria’s delegation leader in the European Parliament said in response to state of affairs that led to the lawsuit being filed.
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