Orbรกn tries to ban Pride in Hungary as polls show rival surging
Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.
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Portuguese president calls elections for May 18
It will be Portugal’s third election in as many years.
Erdogan’s gambit: Could Turkey’s president make peace with PKK?
Itโs a volatile world these days. While Europe wonders if itโs just lost its US security umbrella, while a Gaza ceasefire hangs by a thread, while Syria figures out how to hold it together after the fall of Assad, major regional player Turkey looks to…
Kurdish militant group PKK declares truce with Turkey after 40 years of conflict
Move hailed as a “historic opportunity,” but the group fighting for Kurdish independence stopped short of declaring its dissolution.
Merz strikes urgent tone in calling for more European independence from US
Stance of German allianceโs leader could herald closer ties with France but โdebt brakeโ poses obstacle to spendingGerman election live โ latest updatesFriedrich Merz marked his conservative allianceโs victory in Germanyโs election by urging Europe to …
Les 30 couples de pouvoir les plus influents en 2025
A lโoccasion de la Saint-Valentin, POLITICO a listรฉ les couples les plus influents de lโannรฉe.
Karim Bouamrane : lโambition derriรจre la com
Le mรฉdiatique maire de Saint-Ouen rรชve dโun rรดle national, et peine ร sโen cacher.
Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrateMoscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of USAid, joining a chorus of strongman leaders declaring victory over an organisation they …
Kurdish rebel leader reportedly suggests heโs open to ending insurgency
Abdullah รcalan was quoted as saying he has the “necessary competence and determination to contribute positively to the new paradigm” in Turkey.
Europeโs slow but โinevitableโ march to allow assisted dying
The U.K. is the latest country to move toward legalizing the controversial yet evermore popular practice.
Nos 12 Cรฉsar de lโannรฉe politique 2024
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Voici les 35 ministres du gouvernement Bayrou
Le Premier ministre a formรฉ son gouvernement, mรชlant des figures de la vie politique franรงaise et des ministres dรฉjร nommรฉs par Michel Barnier.
Compromise is a dirty word in French politics โ but it may be Emmanuel Macronโs only hope | Paul Taylor
The president needs to find a new PM to stabilise Franceโs standing on the world stage, even if that means turning to the Socialists Having failed to solve Franceโs political crisis with a prime minister dependent on the far right, President Emmanuel M…
Une France sans budget ? โLe seul prรฉcรฉdent dont nous disposons date de 1979โ
Le prochain gouvernement sera contraint par la Constitution et ses zones d’ombre pour assurer la continuitรฉ de l’Etat.
French government collapse turns the screws on Macron
Prime Minister Michel Barnier will leave office having servedย the shortest prime ministerial term in modern French history.
For Franceโs Le Pen, itโs Barnier now, maybe Macron next
France’s far-right leader has brought the government to its knees. Now, with the country in political turmoil, she has the president in her sights.
Irish prime minister targets 29 November for general election
Taoiseach Simon Harris intends to seek dissolution on Friday (8 November).
Ireland faces snap election on Nov. 29
Prime Minister Simon Harris seeks to exploit Sinn Fรฉinโs weakness.
TikTok sous le feu des attaques (en justice)
La source dโinformations quotidiennes sur tech en France. Par KLARA DURAND Avec OCรANE HERRERO, EMILE MARZOLF & TIPHAINE SALIOU Infos, tuyaux et mini-drames ร partager ? Ecrivez ร Ocรฉane Herrero, Klara Durand, Emile Marzolf et Tiphaine Saliou | Voir dans votre navigateur AU MENU โ Santรฉ mentale des ados : TikTok poursuivie en justice. โ [โฆ]
Le Parlement vole au secours des tรฉlรฉcoms
La source dโinformations quotidiennes sur tech en France. Par OCรANE HERRERO Avec KLARA DURAND, EMILE MARZOLF et TIPHAINE SALIOU Infos, tuyaux et mini-drames ร partager ? Ecrivez ร Ocรฉane Herrero, Klara Durand et Tiphaine Saliou | Voir dans votre navigateur AU MENU โย Tรฉlรฉcoms : le sรฉnateur Patrick Chaize trouve des relais au ministรจres des Anciens [โฆ]
Turkeyโs outlawed Kurdish rebel leader is back โ thanks to his nemesis
Imprisoned militia chief Abdullah รcalan set for dramatic return to the political stage.
Etes-vous prรชts ร prendre la vague NIS2 ?
La source dโinformations quotidiennes sur tech en France. Par OCรANE HERRERO Avec KLARA DURAND et TIPHAINE SALIOU Infos, tuyaux et mini-drames ร partager ? Ecrivez ร Ocรฉane Herrero, Klara Durand et Tiphaine Saliou | Voir dans votre navigateur AU MENU โ Cybersรฉcu : la transposition de la directive NIS2 enfin lร . โ โFair shareโ, CIRโฆ [โฆ]
Iceland on track for snap election as government falls
Iceland’s PM said there is “no other option” after coalition’s policy disagreements.
Icelandโs PM calls November snap election as coalition collapses
Government disbanded due to disagreements on issues including foreign policy and asylum seekers, says Bjarni BenediktssonIcelandโs three-party coalition government, in power since November 2021, collapsed on Sunday due to disagreements on policy issues…
New French government faces rising pressure over end-of-life bill
France’s new government, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, is divided over the end-of-life bill, which was abruptly stalled by the dissolution of the National Assembly in June, but MPs from across the political spectrum are now calling for its adop…
What the last of the anti-war Chicago Seven wants todayโs protestors to know
Lee Weiner helped lead the protests in 1968. Now heโs smoking weed in Ron DeSantisโ hometown.
Macron protรฉgรฉ Gabriel Attal turns into biggest threat to president
Branded as Macronโs mini-me, 35-year-old Gabriel Attal is emerging as a ruthless rival to the French leader.
JD Vance has a bunch of weird views on gender
Overt chauvinism is the unifying thread of the New Right.
โI was afraid of being strangledโ: Italian journalist speaks out after attack by neofascists
Italian politicians condemn assault that took place in Turin on weekend.
France is at a historic turning point โ and it has been here before
The New Popular Front stands on the cusp of a victory that has the potential to transform the course of French history.
Franceโs dissolution of parliament represents โreturn to normal,โ expert says
Analysts have been trying to speculate as to why President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election.
Spรฉciale Aix : brouillard sous le soleil
Notre newsletter quotidienne sur les enjeux de lobbying et de transparence en France. Par PAUL DE VILLEPIN Avec OCรANE HERRERO, JASON WIELS ET MARION SOLLETTY Infos, tuyaux et mini-drames ร partager ? Ecrivez ร Ocรฉane Herrero, Paul de Villepin et Judith Chetrit | Voir dans votre navigateur LE MENU DU JOUR โย Relevรฉ de tempรฉrature aixoise [โฆ]
France’s frenzied finale: Will last-minute deals thwart far-right win?
The ink on the campaign posters barely had time to dry. Yet, Franceโs frenzied snap legislative election races are nearly over. President Macron hoped to clear the air with his shock dissolution of parliament but after the far-rightโs unprecedented su…
Relearning lessons from the past: NATO and economic deterrence
Thereโs a growing need for the West to seamlessly integrate military deterrence with economic warfare once more.
Franceโs mysterious two-round voting system, explained
French voters go to the polls this Sunday (30 June) for the first round of snap legislative elections โ but the countryโs two-round first-past-the-post system makes projections complex and political tactics numerous, ultimately benefiting the surging f…
A la centrale ร charbon de Saint-Avold, des lรฉgislatives ร โquitte ou doubleโ
Les salariรฉs se sentent abandonnรฉs par lโexรฉcutif, dans un territoire oรน le RN a rรฉcoltรฉ prรจs d’une voix sur deux aux europรฉennes.
Farage let the cat out of the bag โ NATO expansion was just an excuse for Putin
Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didnโt do โ he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.
French elections, seen from Germany: Outcome could causeibera ‘extremely serious crisis’
Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution of the Assemblรฉe Nationale stunned German political leaders of all stripes, who fear that the far-right Rassemblement National party, perceived as being ‘deeply Germanophobic,’ could win.
EU braces for the nightmare scenario- a eurosceptic France
National Rally win may hamper blocโs ability to get things done and pose existential question over French roleOn the night her party swept to a crushing victory in European elections and Franceโs president triggered a political earthquake by dissolving…
Who you gonna call when France gets ungovernable?
French political circles are openly discussing the possibility of a very Italian option: an emergency government of experts.ย
Le pari de la dissolution se retourne contre Emmanuel Macron
Lโextrรชme droite se rapproche du pouvoir et la gauche radicale รฉvoque lโesprit de 1936, aux dรฉpens du bloc centriste
The perils of political gambles in France and in the UK
While in France, the dissolution of the Assemblรฉe Nationale has raised fears of the far right coming to power; the UK’s July 4 general election could mark the comeback of nationalist and pro-Brexit demagogue Nigel Farage.
‘Macron, who triggered this dissolution to trap the parties, has trapped himself’
By accelerating the political realignment, the dissolution of the Assemblรฉe Nationale is also bringing back the right-left divide Emmanuel Macron had sought to erase, explains Le Monde columnist Solenn de Royer.
Franceโs slide to the extreme right is the stuff of both farce and tragedy | Harrison Stetler
The Le Pen family drama, รric Ciotti apparently locking himself in his office โฆ it would almost be funny if it werenโt so bleakรric Ciotti, exit stage right. On 11 June, the leader of Franceโs legacy centre-right party Les Rรฉpublicains (LR) went on TV …
Macron attacks โextremesโ and conservatives as he enters campaign race
Emmanuel Macron lashed out at political extremes and the conservative leadershipโs decision to ally with the far-right, dubbing them โanti-Republican,โ in a two-hour long press conference on Wednesday (12 June) that marked the presidentโs first steps i…