Category: Politico News

Fit and proper It was essential, McSweeney would tell his audiences, that the first criterion for choosing a candidate should be that they are a “fit and proper” person for the job.  In a cynical age when most voters have no automatic loyalty to parties in the way they used to, fielding credible candidates is […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threw his support behind Hungarian populist nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is facing the most serious challenge to his rule in more than a decade in the parliamentary election set for April. “Viktor Orbán is a true friend, fighter, and WINNER, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement […]

Fifty-seven percent of all respondents in the Odaxa poll, which was published Thursday evening in Le Figaro, believed Bardella would be able “exist politically” without Le Pen, seemingly assuaging concerns that he would flounder with his mentor. Forty percent said they are considering voting for Bardella, compared to 38 percent for Le Pen. Bardella has […]

If it fails to satisfy the Commission, the app could face fines up to 6 percent of annual revenue. TikTok can now defend itself against the preliminary findings and examine the evidence against it. “The Commission’s preliminary findings present a categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform, and we will take whatever steps […]

Ziobro is under investigation over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents, in cases pursued by prosecutors under Tusk’s center-left coalition government. He was stripped of his parliamentary immunity in November. Ziobro denies all charges and has long argued that the investigation is a political vendetta by Tusk, whom […]

The EU has so far resisted pressure to change the EU Methane Regulation, which came into effect last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas often released through leaks and flaring during the extraction, refining and transport of petrochemicals. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, EU shipments of U.S. oil and gas have […]

Mitten in Doha, bei über 20 Grad und zwischen Museumsbesuch und Wirtschaftsdelegation, begleiten unter anderem Gordon Repinski und Markus Preiß den Bundeskanzler auf einer seiner zentralen Auslandsreisen. Die beiden reden darüber, wie sich deutsche Außenpolitik gerade neu sortiert und warum sie sich das auch leisten muss. Es geht um den deutlichen Kurswechsel hin zu einer […]

Can the European Union really decouple from Donald Trump’s America — economically, politically, and strategically? In this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton speaks with Mateusz Morawiecki, former Polish prime minister and president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party about his call for an “Economic NATO,” an even stronger economic and political alliance […]

For the intense GB News host, traveling around the constituency with a security detail, this is a “four-week by-election campaign to bring down Keir Starmer.”  “If we win here, Keir Starmer will almost certainly have to resign,” Goodwin claims. “It will be too embarrassing. It will be unbearable for No.10, especially after the Andy Burnham […]

Interestingly, military patrol was an actual Olympic sport at the 1924 games in Chamonix, France. It involved teams cross-country skiing, mountain climbing and shooting, making it marginally more treacherous than walking from one end of Rue de la Loi to the other in a light drizzle. And if the Olympics ever did bring it back, […]