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Polanski, however, thinks the government should go further on building ties with the EU in other areas. “I think rejoining the customs union is something we should be doing as soon as possible,” he said. “It’s just resulting in higher prices for people.” It’s a policy also backed by the opposition Liberal Democrats, with whom the Greens are bidding for disillusioned Labour voters. As for rejoining the bloc altogether? “Over longer term, absolutely we should be rejoining the European Union. But we’ve got to make sure that that conversation is a conversation all the public’s involved with. I think one…
“We have no interest in young Ukrainian men spending their time in Germany instead of defending their country,” Jürgen Hardt, a senior foreign policy lawmaker from Merz’s conservatives, told POLITICO on Tuesday. “Ukraine makes its own decisions, but the recent change in the law has led to a trend of emigration that we must address.” Poland’s far-right Confederation party went further, saying in a statement: “Poland cannot continue to be a refuge for thousands of men who should be defending their own country, while burdening Polish taxpayers with the costs of their desertion.” Ukrainian arrivals in both countries have increased…
According to the TAO, “this change cannot come about without discussing with staff to co-build new ways of working.” The email warns “it is impossible to pave the way for a new Commission organization based on simple polls or consultations — we must therefore involve staff through its representative trade unions from the outset.” The working group responsible for the restructuring, advised by former Commission Secretary-General Catherine Day, has held a series of workshops with staff. However, internal documents obtained by POLITICO reveal they have encountered “resistance and cynicism” from colleagues, “hierarchical and rigidity issues” as well as “poor communication…
A verdict is expected later Tuesday evening. Auzières said the conspiracy theories had made it “impossible” for her mother “to have a normal life.” When asked about her uncle Jean-Michel, she testified she had seen him “a few months ago” and that he was “doing very well.” The 10 defendants — eight men and two women from their 40s to their 60s — cut an unlikely cross-section of France. They range from a well-off computer scientist working in Switzerland to a heavily disabled man “who spends a lot of time on Twitter,” a self-described spiritual medium crippled by debt and…
The complaint referred to minutes from a meeting in May between the cabinet of Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and the European Round Table for Industry, which read: “ERT inquired about the proposals regarding the first omnibus proposal. Head of Cabinet gave an overview of the state of play.” Lots of lobbying The Ombudsman wrote in its response to the NGO that the Commission’s “implicit refusal” to provide any follow-up documents on the meeting after it requested them justified an inquiry, which it opened earlier this month. The NGO argued that it was particularly important to access the information given the…
His blunt intervention comes the day after another Antwerp judge published an anonymous letter decrying that Belgium was on the verge of becoming a “narco-state.” De Wever, prime minister since February this year, spent more than a decade as mayor of Antwerp demanding more federal money to address narcotics-related issues, but Willocx notes action hasn’t been forthcoming since he ascended to the Belgian premiership. “He was the mayor and now he is the prime minister. I’m sure that safety and security and these kind of things are very important to him, but we ask his government to invest more, to…
The numbers reveal highly volatile voter support, with undecided voters likely to play a decisive role. According to Ipsos I&O, about 13 percent of voters are undecided, but even those who indicated a preference are still highly uncommitted; only 26 percent of those interviewed were sure of their choices. Meanwhile, the polling company’s researchers found that about half of voters who declared support for Timmermans’ GL-PVDA are still considering voting for D66, while 37 percent of D66 voters say they could still back GL-PVDA. Other parties are also still competing for undecided voters, with D66, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)…
By Euronews Published on 28/10/2025 – 17:17 GMT+1 The family of a pregnant British teenager who was arrested in Georgia on drug smuggling charges earlier this year have paid more than €157,000 in a plea deal that could lead to a two-year jail sentence, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Bella May Culley, 19, was arrested in May at Tbilisi Airport and accused of attempting to smuggle 12 kilogrammes of marijuana and 2 kilogrammes of hashish into the country. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years or life imprisonment, but a plea bargain intended to reduce her sentence is currently being…
Green-Left Labor, led by veteran politician Frans Timmermans, is also in the mix. But as the Dutch say: Don’t sell the hide before the bear is shot. In the last election, most voters didn’t make up their minds until the final moments. This means that for Wilders especially, turnout will be critical. No matter what his result, he is expected to be frozen out of coalition talks, having burned too many bridges in The Hague. If he wins the most votes but is still sidelined from government, he’s likely to use it as ammunition to argue his followers are being ignored…
Published on 28/10/2025 – 19:04 GMT+1 Lawyers for Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro have filed an appeal to reduce his pirson sentence for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat. Judges convicted Bolsonaro of trying to overthrow democracy in September and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in jail. He has been under house arrest since August. In an 85-page document sent to the Supreme Court on Monday and shared with the Associated Press on Tuesday, lawyers said that the conviction and sentence entailed “profound injustices.” Lawyers argued there were “ambiguities, omissions, contradictions and obscurities” in the…