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Weidel promises to revive the economy, reduce migration and roll back climate policies. Alice Weidel has now officially been nominated as the first ever chancellor candidate of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the upcoming election. However, she is unlikely to be able to take the chancellery in practice as other parties have said they will refuse to work with the AfD.Nevertheless, the political movement AfD, which was founded in 2013, has been receiving increasingly strong approval rates and is currently the second-strongest party in the country after the centre-right Christian Democrats.The party has been polling between…
Georgescu is an ultranationalist who has no party and was a little-known political figure until he shot into the lead in the first round of voting after what authorities said was a coordinated foreign hybrid attack attempting to sway the election. Prosecutors raided three properties in the city of Brașov, in the mountainous Transylvania region, in connection with an investigation into potential voter corruption, money laundering and computer forgery. They are also investigating whether there has been a breach of a ban on organizations and symbols of a fascist, racist or xenophobic nature, they said in a press statement on…
Members of the ruling party boycotted the impeachment vote, causing dismissal of the motion to impeach Saturday night. For an impeachment to take place, the opposition-led parliament — which holds 300 seats — needs at least eight members from the ruling party to participate, and 200 lawmakers to vote overall. A member of the conservative People Power Party, Yoon won the South Korean presidential election by a narrow margin in 2022. But his party lost control of the parliament in April this year and has since faced constant political pushback, prompting Yoon’s approval ratings to plummet. Yoon’s decision to impose…
Formerly Soviet Georgia remains well within Russia’s orbit, with pro-Russian forces a powerful presence there. When the new wave of protests started on the night of Nov. 29, more than 100 people were arrested after injury of 42 ministry “employees” who participated in law enforcement, the interior ministry previously reported. The BBC estimated more than 300 people had been arrested — ahead of the Friday detentions — since the renewed protests that have running for more than a week. Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania are among countries sanctioning Georgian officials for the ruling party’s violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
As the anti-immigrant AfD struggles to shake off accusations of Nazi sympathy, the family history of Alice Weidel has also come under the spotlight — specifically her late grandfather, who was a prominent military judge under the Nazi regime. Current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a federal election after the collapse of his three-party coalition in November, which included the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). Polling at about 18 percent, AfD is the second-most-popular party in Germany after the conservative bloc (CDU/CSU), which is currently polling at 32 percent. It’s…
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President Iohannis received evidence from the secret intelligence services indicating that both state and non-state actors had interfered in the election, and naming Russia as responsible for a series of aggressive hybrid attacks. The U.S. endorsed the findings of Russian involvement. Acting on the intelligence, Iohannis declassified secret files that alleged Georgescu had unlawfully benefited from extensive electoral promotion during periods when campaigning was prohibited. Additionally, the documents alleged his campaign had received foreign financial support, despite the fact he declared he’d spent nothing on it. The Constitutional Court was inundated by a surge of requests to annul the election in…
So much has changed since Trump first took office in January 2017 and Macron ascended four months later. Russia is fighting a war in Europe; Israel is engaged in bloody conflict with militant groups on its doorstep; the U.K. has left the EU; and France’s political system is now paralyzed, with the far right poised for power as Macron’s popularity lies in tatters. But Macron has form, both in using French pageantry when times are tough, and in cozying up to Trump. It’s a bromance the like of which the world has rarely seen. The question is whether the trip…
The Notre Dame Cathedral has been closed to the public since a massive fire broke out in April 2019. Dozens of global leaders and high-ranking officials, including current First Lady Jill Biden and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will also be in attendance. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen was also initially slated to attend, but canceled Friday evening. Earlier in the day, von der Leyen infuriated France by heading to Uruguay to sign a trade agreement with the South American Mercosur bloc, which Paris had vigorously opposed. Veronika Melkozerova contributed to this report.
The rest of the package focuses mostly on sanctioning companies and vessels involved in circumventing existing EU penalties on Russia. A draft list seen by POLITICO shows plans to more than double the number of oil and gas tankers on its blacklist, bringing the total to 75. Yet talks fell apart, two of the diplomats said, after the two Baltic nations pushed to block the reauthorization of the “no-Russia clause,” which lets EU companies continue operating in Russia while also receiving authorization to import and export goods that would otherwise be banned. Other member states, including Germany and France, were reluctant to…