Category: 3. Europe

Punitive tariffs on Russian imports are under discussion, two European officials said. The EU has imposed sizable sanctions on Moscow since it launched its 2022 invasion but have held back from a total trade embargo against Russia. Imposing EU…

Moscow also left it until the eleventh hour to provide any detail about who would be in its delegation. With Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov not included either, it was clear this would not be an empowered team. A further signal of that was the man chosen to lead the delegation, presidential…

“When somebody concentrates all power into their hands, then of course that person will be held responsible for their mistakes,” said one SPD politician, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party matters. In the past, Klingbeil could always blame the party’s failures…

But more recent polls have shown the gap narrowing significantly as decision day gets closer.

On Wednesday, a poll of 4,000 people by AtlasIntel put the two candidates level on 48 percent each. Crucially, AtlasIntel included a sample of the large Romanian diaspora population, among whom…

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With Nigel Farage’s Reform UK muscling in to key parts of the country, Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan speaks to politicians through the North of England, where Labour has an uphill battle to convince their heartlands they can be trusted.

Sascha speaks to…

Surprisingly, one issue that didn’t come up was whether Montenegro would partner with the far right if he won the election but failed to secure a governing majority. Those fears abounded last year, but voters now appear satisfied the center-right politician can be trusted to keep the…

Although they are part of a parliamentary majority, the PSD and PNL again performed badly in the presidential rerun and have failed to make it to Sunday’s second round. Instead, Simion from the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) will face off against Dan, the independent…

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