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The presidential race will have a big say on whether Poland plays in the EU’s big league or if it retreats back into isolation alongside other populist-governed countries in Central Europe like Hungary and Slovakia. During PiS’s eight years in power it got into fights with the EU and other allies over efforts to politicize the justice system, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, tightening abortion rules and using state money for party aims. However, it also directed a deluge of money toward poorer voters and gave often-ignored people from smaller towns and villages a sense that their more conservative values were…

By Euronews Georgia Published on 30/05/2025 – 20:58 GMT+2Police in Georgia have detained a second opposition leader within days as protests against the ruling Georgian Dream party and its perceived Russia-friendly stance continue in the South Caucasus country.Lawyers for Nika Melia, one of the figureheads for Georgia’s pro-Western Coalition for Change, said his car was stopped by police on Thursday.Soon after, he was bundled away by a large group of people in civilian clothing.According to the interior ministry, Melia has been detained on charges of verbally insulting a law enforcement officer.A court placed Melia in pre-trial detention but the length of…

While Wadephul stressed Israel’s right to defend itself — “also with German weapons systems,” including against the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, or Iran — he sharply criticized the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where Israel has been waging war on Hamas militants in retaliation for a violent attack in October 2023. “The aid deliveries reaching Gaza are just a drop in the ocean,” he said. “This is about ensuring basic human rights. The sick, the weak, and the children are the first to die.” “As a consequence,” Wadephul added, “we have changed our tone — and will likely change…

Carbon credits are meant to work like this: One country — say, an EU member — pays for a project that reduces emissions in another country (usually a poorer nation), for example, a solar farm that replaces polluting coal-fired power. But instead of the country hosting the solar farm counting the reduction toward its own target, the EU country would get the credit. In practice, such transactions have often failed to produce documented emissions cuts, but a new United Nations-backed framework finalized last year has raised hopes that future credits will be better regulated. The Commission was due to present…

For decades, Adams has been identified in every credible history of the Irish republican movement as a Provisional IRA commander since at least 1972, when British authorities freed him from prison to participate in the Provisionals’ first face-to-face truce talks with U.K. government ministers in London. The Irish government, citing its own security services, says Adams stepped down from the IRA’s ruling “army council” only in 2005 when the group formally renounced violence and disarmed. Yet Adams has insisted he was never in the IRA — a position repeated at the end of each episode of Disney’s recent acclaimed series…

By Shona Murray & Jesse Dimich-Louvet Published on 30/05/2025 – 16:31 GMT+2•Updated 16:35EU Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resilience, Jessika Roswall, says “anyone who wants to join in solidarity with the LGBTQ community in Hungary should do so.” She was responding to the Hungarian government’s decision to ban Gay Pride parades, a decision that has been heavily condemned by a majority of EU member states including France, Germany and Spain.”The European Union is built on values, which, of course, we all stand behind, and this is the pressure we are in this union of – one of the key things is…

The US Supreme Court has again cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case.The administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston…

Italy’s countryside is peppered with villages rich in architectural marvels, gastronomic delights and arcane cultural traditions. Each year, these little-known treasures compete for national recognition through ‘Borgo dei Borghi’ (Village of Villages), a beloved television contest that has become a cultural phenomenon.Organised by RAI, Italy’s national public broadcasting company, the annual competition is broadcast in weekly episodes that turn the spotlight on each of the 20 selected villages.The programme has become a form of travel inspiration as it recounts legends, curiosities and rituals that make each village one-of-a-kind. Here are this year’s winners – chosen by viewers and an expert…

“I had objected to NATO having a role in Asia because I don’t believe in being enrolled in someone else’s strategic rivalry,” Macron said, hinting that Paris could revisit its stance. North Korean troops have supported the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine as part of a military pact between the two countries, with Moscow using Pyongyang’s soldiers to try push Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region of southwestern Russia.Macron’s speech comes on the heels of an Asian tour that started with a marital dispute and took him to Vietnam and Indonesia, where France signed a series of deals, including on…

Published on 30/05/2025 – 16:46 GMT+2From Belgium to Denmark, Bangladesh to Egypt – nuclear power is making a political and policy come-back and drew advocates from across the globe to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Vienna headquarters this week, though it remains less loved in the Austrian home of the UN agency.With big tech looking at nuclear energy to power future AI operations and policymakers increasingly mulling the potential of small modular reactors – mini nuclear plants that could be factory built and power a small town, the International Atomic Energy Agency has noticed more and more countries interested in…