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By Euronews Published on 01/06/2025 – 21:22 GMT+2•Updated 02/06/2025 – 13:37 GMT+2Conservative Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count. Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a nailbiting final race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%. He will succeed conservative Andrzej Duda, whose second and final term ends on 6 August. The close ballot had the country on edge since a first round two weeks earlier revealed deep divisions along the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union. Although most day-to-day power lies in Poland lies with the prime minister,…

By Euronews with AP Published on 02/06/2025 – 0:17 GMT+2French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the Paris Saint-Germain football team to the presidential palace on Sunday to celebrate their historic Champions League win. Before meeting with Macron, PSG were paraded through the Champs-Elysee in an open roof coach bus.  The team beat Italian side Inter Milan 5-0 in the tournament’s final the day prior in Munich. It was the first time PSG ever won the title – having coming up short in their only previous final against Bayern Munich in 2020. French authorities say two people died after celebrations erupted around the country following the team’s…

Published on 04/06/2025 – 0:28 GMT+2South Korea’s liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president early on Wednesday in a victory that would cap months of political turmoil triggered by the stunning but brief imposition of martial law by now-ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.With over 99% of votes counted, Jae-myung obtained 49.3% of the votes cast in Tuesday’s early election, while main conservative contender Kim Moon Soo trailed with 41.3%.Nearly 80% of the country’s 44.4 million eligible voters cast ballots, according to an interim tally. That’s one of the highest turnouts for a presidential election in South Korea, reflecting…

By Euronews Published on 03/06/2025 – 9:56 GMT+2•Updated 20:21Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has stepped down on Tuesday following his coalition partner, far-right politician Geert Wilders’ decision to leave the government over a migration law dispute.Schoof is expected to offer the resignation of the cabinet to King Willem-Alexander before the end of the day.He slammed Wilders’ decision to leave the coalition as “irresponsible and unnecessary”. “As far as I’m concerned, this shouldn’t have happened,” he said.Schoof said the coalition government would serve as a caretaker administration until a snap election could be held, although no date has been set yet.Wilders’ announcement…

Doctors and organizations assisting with abortion face constant harassment in Poland. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded last year that women in Poland are facing severe human rights violations due to restrictive abortion laws, with many forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek unsafe clandestine procedures or travel abroad for legal abortions. The case of Justyna Wydrzyńska, an activist who was sentenced to eight months of community service for facilitating an abortion in 2023, made international headlines. And in April, Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun stormed a hospital in Poland and threatened a doctor with…

By Andrea Barolini & Fanuel Morelli Published on 03/06/2025 – 14:22 GMT+2As part of the European Green Deal, Europe hopes to become climate neutral by 2050. Sustainable transport is one of the cornerstones of Europe’s green transition, alongside the shift away from fossil fuels. However, making cities less reliant on motor vehicles isn’t just beneficial for the environment, it also helps protect public health. World Bicycle Day, celebrated globally on 3 June, highlights the benefits of using a bike as a sustainable means of transport. As far as eco-friendly transport goes, cycling is difficult to beat. But in order to encourage people…

Ces noms lui ont parfois été transmis par les collectifs de surveillance des influenceurs avec lesquels le cabinet de la ministre échange souvent, à l’instar du collectif Mineurs, éthique et réseaux (Meer). L’objectif : obtenir la suppression de leurs comptes. Trois plateformes présentes lors de l’échange, dont TikTok, ont du reste indiqué à POLITICO qu’elles commençaient à passer en revue les contenus des comptes signalés par la ministre, sans s’engager à ce stade à les supprimer. “Les jeunes, parfois très jeunes, ont un accès sans filtre à ces contenus, à des vidéos violentes, à des discours toxiques, à des modèles destructeurs”,…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2•Updated 15:31French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin says he wants tougher punishments for anyone found guilty of violence against police officers, in comments that come after clashes broke out following Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) Champions League win.In a social media post, Darmanin argued that the current legal framework is too lenient and insufficient to deal with incidents occurring in the country.”Following this weekend’s serious public order incidents and repeated disturbances, some of the convictions for violence, particularly against law enforcement officers and for destruction of property, are no longer commensurate with the level of violence in our…

At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in an attack on an aid convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region on Tuesday, the United Nations has said, with the warring parties in the northeast African nation trading blame for the attack.The attack on the 15-truck convoy carrying desperately needed food and nutrition supplies happened on Monday night near the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled town of Koma in North Dafur province.It was trying to reach besieged el-Fasher city, according to a joint statement from the World Food Programme and UNICEF. Both agencies called for an investigation into the attack.”This was the…

Tan Albayrak, a sanctions lawyer at Reed Smith, agreed: “I do not see a legal basis, either way, because the funds are frozen.  They cannot be used to fulfill any of the parties’ wishes.”  “In sanctions laws, frozen means frozen — and just that,” said Albayrak. “Normally, the funds can’t be distributed — neither according to Mr. Abramovich’s wishes nor to the U.K. government’s wishes,” he said. Still, the £2.5 billion figure pales in comparison to the hundreds of billions of pounds frozen by the EU and U.K. since the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Despite bold statements, the British government…