Two pro-Palestinian protesters try to rush on stage as Yuval Raphael sings New Day Will Rise in BaselEurovision song contest 2025 โ live!A Eurovision song contest crew member was hit with paint after two people tried to rush on stage to disrupt Israeli…
In the last two weeks, at least three new law firms have been formed to represent clients who have been targeted by the administration.
Romaniaโs 2024 presidential election was controversially canceled for suspected foreign interference. Horaศiu Potra, an ally of banned candidate Cฤlin Georgescu, is accused of plotting an insurrection.
Sundayโs election could threaten the countryโs place in Europe if Russiaโs dark arts and historical amnesia win the daySomewhere in my attic, among my rather extensive Polly Pocket and Barbie dolls collection, thereโs a poster by the Romanian caricatur…
A cross-party group of MEPs plans to join Budapest Pride despite Hungaryโs ban. Organisers and lawmakers urge the European Commission to take legal action, warning of broader risks to civil liberties across the EU.
The center-right party of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is shifting away from green issues as it aligns itself with farmers and industry.
Economic malaise is helping nationalist presidential candidate George Simion.
Human Rights Watch says football’s governing body should be prepared to “reconsider” choice of U.S. as tournament co-host.
Greenland is a part of Denmark, and Washington cannot take it, Troels Lund Poulsen says.
The U.S. president’s musings on annexing the Arctic island are alarming Copenhagen.
Slovak PM is the only EU leader to attend Red Square festivities.
Albaniaโs embattled opposition party is mounting a dramatic election push after years sidelined by Edi Ramaโs ruling Socialists.
Cardinals begin locked-in selection process amid throng of pilgrims and peaceful protest for womenโs rights in churchExplainer: how does the conclave work?Plumes of black smoke have emerged from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel, signalling that…
Members of a Catholic women’s groupย lit pink smoke flares on a hill behind the Vatican on Wednesday in protest against gender inequality in the Church, hours before cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope.
โNow, more than ever, it is necessary to keep a cool head,โ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says as South Asian nations trade fire.
The EUโs center looks flaky, with France a mess and Germanyโs Friedrich Merz making a meal of getting confirmed as chancellor.ย
โThey hate Brussels because itโs a multicultural city,โ Philippe Close fumes in an interview with POLITICO after disorder tarnished a football final.
Players have had enough of rule 6(b) of the sportโs code, which requres a โskirt/skort/divided skirtโThey are called skorts โ a portmanteau of shorts and skirts โ and the Irish camogie players who are obliged to wear them have had enough.Players from D…
Brits voted for Conservatives, they voted for Labour โ and the change they wanted didn’t happen.
The nationalist chief vociferously supports Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni โ and he leads the presidential race ahead of May 18’s critical second round.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in the northern half of the ethnically divided capital of Nicosia to protest against what they say is an attempt by Turkey to erode their secular roots and strengthen the hold of political Islam over their society.
The Geneva rally comes two days after several UN aid agencies said they would have to slash jobs because of funding cuts, warning the reductions will severely affect aid programmes worldwide.
Serbia’s unions have called on workers to join a student-led rally on Thursday, throwing their weight behind a mass movement that has staged six months of protests over corruption in the wake of a deadly roof collapse at a train station in Novi Sad.
Artists created an AI โminister of latecomersโ, who encourages people to compensate for years lost, and a tool calculating exactly how late to turn upChanges to Franceโs pension system have been a hot potato for French presidents for decades, bringing …
The populist party could hold its first reins of power after Thursday’s local elections. So what will it actually do? POLITICO went on a mission to find out.
Authoritarians’ early popularity can delay resistance โ but thatโs when the real damage gets done.
The ambitions of the proposed bill are clear: Itโs about targeting civil society, journalists and activists โ within Hungary and the diaspora โ who refuse to fall in line.
Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiลก, dubbed โthe Czech TrumpโA former cold war communist dictatorship and component part of the Habsburg empire seems an unlikely source of hope for Donald Trumpโs op…
Kremlinโs most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern blocDuring the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment began to grow in communist Czechoslovakia, a group of…
Ninety-nine defendants in one case appeared in court on Friday in Istanbul’s รaglayan neighborhood to face charges of participating in unauthorized demonstrations organized to protest the arrest of the city’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
POLITICO analyzes all the data on the most likely presidential runoff races ahead of next month’s existential vote.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Hungary’s capital, Budapest, on Monday to mock and protest a constitutional amendment which passed through the country’s parliament banning LGBTQ+ gatheringsHungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ…
Court ruled Steve Brayโs anti-Tory and anti-Brexit protest featuring The Muppet Show and Darth Vader themes was lawful expression of his viewsAn activist known as Stop Brexit Man has been cleared of flouting a police ban after playing anti-Conservative…
Professor Alexandra Bituลกรญkovรก explains how face-to-face local activism was crucial in bringing down Marian Kotleba, leader of the Peopleโs Party Our SlovakiaHaving grown up in Banskรก Bystrica in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, I vividly remember standing…
Steve Bray, who regularly protests by playing music outside parliament, is in court after allegedly flouting a police banOn a traffic island in Westminster, he played a song titled โBrexit Tragedyโ to the tune of The Beatlesโ Yellow Submarine, serenadi…
Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germanyโs lurch to the rightIn the first week of January, I received a letter from the Berlin Immigration Office, informing me that …
For a Black chef taking on haute cuisine, the biggest challenge is not race but economics.
In todayโs edition of The Capitals, read about the Five Star Movement leading a major protest in Rome against EU defense push, Poland failing to appoint a digital democracy watchdog ahead of election, and so much more.
Organisers claimed attendance exceeded 80,000, with some estimates approaching 100,000.
Balkan leader also expects to meet American President Donald Trump in the coming months to discuss tariffs.
The French far right has framed the verdict against Le Pen as an attack on democracy โ but was unable to attract a large crowd to a rally of support on Sunday.
The housing crisis has hit particularly hard in Spain, where there is a strong tradition of home ownership and scant public housing for rent. Buying a home has become unaffordable for many, with market pressures and speculation driving up prices, espec…
Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to โend the housing racketโ and to demand access to affordable housingTens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation…
PM ready to ditch โold assumptionsโ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growthKeir Starmer is preparing to rethink key elements of the governmentโs economic policy in an emergency response to Donald Trumpโs tariff blitz, amid grow…
French prime minister calls for rival gatherings to be held in a spirit of โcalm, mutual respect and responsibilityโFranceโs far right is hoping for a massive public show of support tomorrow in a โpeopleโs protestโ against Marine Le Pen being barred fr…
Hundreds of people gathered in Paris, Berlin, London, Lisbon and several other European citieson Saturday to protest againstย US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk. The demonstrations follow a tumultuous week for global financial markets …
Thousands took to the streets of Rome to protest the European Commission’s proposed rearmament plan. Organised by the Five Star Movement, the demonstration condemned Meloni’s government and von der Leyen’s plan.
A group of Serbian students has set out on a bike journey towards the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France to protest government corruption, cited as a major reason behindย the collapse of a train station in Serbia last November that killed 16 peo…
A group of Serbian students has embarked on a bike journey towards Strasbourg, France, to start a protest. Their goal is to seek EU support in their quest for justice following the tragic collapse of a train station in Serbia last November, which resu…
Critics say the bill would discredit NGOs that receive any kind of foreign funding.
The countryโs so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism โ to the AfDโs delightA crackdown on political dissent is well under way in Germany. Over the past two years, institutions and authorities have cancelled events, exhibi…
His selection had surprised U.S. allies because the lawyer had no significant foreign policy experience.
There was a sea of humanity out in the streets last Saturday to protest the jailing of Turkey’s popular presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu, but now the country’s on a week-long post-Ramadan break. Will it be long enough to dull the momentum of Turk…
National Rally president blames tyranny of “red judges” for barring his mentor from running for president in 2027 after she was found guilty of embezzlement.
Marine Le Pen has been trying to normalize the National Rally in recent years, but may be tempted to wreak havoc after her guilty verdict.
The lessons we can take from how easily institutions have folded to Trumpโs remarkable revenge campaign.
Once the great hope of the European climate movement, Germany’s Greens are now confronting their relative powerlessness.
With all the injustice and suffering in the world right now, millions more people should be joining demonstrations, says Mehmet OnurI have been on a few anti-war, free Palestine protests in central London. I stopped going to Starbucks, I stopped drinki…
รzgรผr รzel expands call to boycott companies perceived as close to President Recep Tayyip ErdoฤanTurkeyโs anti-government protesters are weighing their options, amid calls by the main opposition leader for weekly rallies, a growing economic boycott and…
Popular student demonstrator Berkay Gezgin, 21, snatched off street by police outside office of detained Istanbul mayorWhen 21-year-old Berkay Gezgin left the interior of Istanbul city hall, a squad of police was waiting for him outside. Protests that …
France has been urged to shun Maga America as #BoycottUSA hashtag spreads, but teenagers say they canโt afford to join the action On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonaldโs and KFC were doing brisk business.There was …
Brussels this week urged Ankara to ‘uphold democratic values.’
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the protest called by รzgur รzel, the head of the opposition Republican Peopleโs party (CHP), in a spot far from Istanbul’s city centre. รzel claimed 2.2 million people attended the protest in defence of the may…
Hundreds of thousands gather for Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu outside Istanbul centre in move to keep momentum after clashes with policeTurkeyโs main opposition has rallied in defence of the jailed Istanbul mayor, Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu, in a move to sustain the largest ant…
Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤluโs arrest, they have hopeCarolin Wรผrfel is a German writer based in IstanbulWhen I first visited Istanbul nearly 20 years ago, I spoke with an academic who h…
The jailing of President Erdoฤanโs main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy โ but the protesters arenโt done yet eitherโข Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel prize in literatureSince the arrest earlier this month of Pres…
British broadcaster says its veteran correspondent Mark Lowen was held by police for 17 hours before being deported
Mark Lowen considered โthreat to public orderโ after reports on nationwide anti-government demonstrations Europe live โ latest updatesThe BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported from Turkey, where he was reporting on the countryโs l…
A Turkish court on Thursday freed seven journalists detained for covering mass protests roiling the country including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, his lawyer said. Meanwhile police broke up an anti-government protest at an Ankara protest early Thursd…
Gรผnther Felรner says wife was โin fear of life and limbโ after animal rights group climbed shed and set off flaresThe conservative pick for German agriculture minister has withdrawn his candidacy after animal rights activists stormed his farm, promptin…
PRESS REVIEWย โ Wednesday, March 26: International papers react to the Black Sea security deal reached by Ukraine and Russia that was brokered by the US. Elsewhere, European papers react to the Signal group chat leak with outrage. Also, Palestinians pa…
The youthful energy of street protest is breathing life back into failing progressive parties โ and itโs a model that could be applied everywhereEce Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and political commentatorAfter 22 years of power grabs, the seizure …
News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networksAt the same time as the sound of clanging pots and pans rang out through the streets of opposition strongholds in Istanbul on a recent evenin…
The protest was the second in as many weeks since the ruling Fidesz party of Hungary used its two-thirds parliamentary majority last Tuesday to expedite the law, which critics say is the government’s most recent assault on the rights of the LGBTQ+ comm…
Arrests condemned as โunlawfulโ by press freedom groups, highlighting growing repression amid demonstrations against President ErdoฤanA prosecutor in Istanbul has remanded eight journalists in custody, reversing a decision to release them after they we…
Young people were at the forefront in the early hours of the mobilization supporting opposition figure and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Protests against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime continued on Monday, for the sixth consecutive day.
Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling islandโs government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump. Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will land in the Danish territory on Thursday, alongside National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. [โฆ]
Vast crowds of students surged onto Istanbul’s streets Monday in the latest protest over the arrest and jailing of Istanbul’s opposition mayor that has sparked Turkey’s worst unrest in years. FRANCE 24’s Peter O’Brien speaks to Massimo D’Angelo, Resea…
Despite bans, beatings and even the use of facial recognition to pursue protestersโฆTurkeyโs oppositionโs out in the streets in its greatest numbers in more than a decade. Thisโฆ after the jailing of center-left opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu, the pop…
Thousands have taken to the streets across Turkey to protest the arrest of an opposition politican.
Thousands have taken to the streets across Turkey to protest the arrest of an opposition politican.
Charges of corruption and terrorism against Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu have sparked widespread protests.
Thousands protested in Amsterdam, Paris and Toulouse against the backdrop of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Organisers of the demonstration warned against the rise of the far-right in the Netherlands, whose government veered to the right last year.
Defying a ban on public rallies, demonstrators took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and several Turkish cities for a third night to protest the arrestย of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoglu, a popular opposition politician and key challenger to Turkish …
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Slovakia to participate in regular demonstrations against incumbent Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies.
Clashes erupted on the sidelines of the protest, with riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets, according to two AFP correspondents who were both hit in the leg. Protests spread from Istanbul to at least 40 of Turkey’s 81 provinces.
They set off smoke bombs in Budapest’s chamber โ and have now been hit with record fines.
Detention of Istanbulโs popular mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu galvanises opposition and leads to stock market plunge
In todayโs newsletter: As Zelenskyy urges the EU to step up, divisions remain on how to secure the continentโs future amid Russian aggressionGood morning. Yesterday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a European Council summit in Brussels, and emphasised th…
Clashes have broken out between police and protesters in Turkey, as thousands took to the streets over what they call the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu. Turkish police had arrested the mayor of Istanbul, the primary challeng…
More than 500,000 people sign petition after โpowerful sonic impactโ allegedly directed towards rally in BelgradeMore than half a million people have signed an online petition calling for an independent investigation into whether security forces in Ser…
Turkish riot police fired teargas and rubber bullets on Thursday, as demonstrators protested for a second night outside Istanbul City Hall over the shock arrest of the Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft and terror probe. The powerful and popular Imamoglu…
As hundreds of thousands of Serbians take to the streets of Belgrade to protest what they describe as rampant corruption and cronyism in President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤโs government, the European Union is once again facing accusations that itโs putting its…
Prosecutors accuse ฤฐmamoฤlu of exploiting his position for financial gain, including the improper allocation of government contracts.
Ivica Daฤiฤ has denied accusations from rights groups and opposition parties that the Serbian security forces used a sonic weapon against protesters in Belgrade that briefly sowed panic and left some with symptoms that lingered long after Saturday’s ra…
Even without the top ministry job, Felรner becomes a burden for the CDU
People gather at city hall and students march in anger at arrest of Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu, a likely opposition candidate for presidencyOutside Istanbulโs city hall on Wednesday night a mass of protesters gathered in the freezing air to defy a city-wide ban on…
Some 37 people have been arrested for “provocative” social media posts, the interior ministry says.
