The election of George Simion would be a troubling โ but understandable โ repudiation of the countryโs pro-EU establishmentAt first glance, Romaniaโs presidential race, which comes to a head in a second round of voting this Sunday, might look like a de…
On Monday, President Radev submitted a referendum request to Parliament, but Speaker Natalia Kiselova (BSP, PES) rejected it as inadmissible, leaving him no legal avenue to appeal.
Greenland is a part of Denmark, and Washington cannot take it, Troels Lund Poulsen says.
The move sparked a political storm in Sofia. Critics accused Radev of fuelling fears over the euro and resisting Bulgariaโs full EU integration.
Centrist Prime Minister Franรงois Bayrou is facing a week from hell.
Rightwing opposition party claims some artists will receive benefits having contributed little to the stateSloveniaโs populist opposition has mounted a campaign against โdegenerateโ artists as it seeks to topple government plans for special pension top…
Some economists claim that the country lacks an acceptable degree of economic condition to join the eurozone and it’s not yet ready to adopt the single currency.
The potential move follows the passing of France’s tumultuous 2025 budget in February, which aims to reduce the public deficit to 5.4% of GDP this year.
โThe question is serious enough, with far-reaching consequences for the countryโs future, that it should be put directly to the people,” Bayrou tells Journal du Dimanche.
With Labour losing votes to pro-European parties, an intriguing new deep-dive makes clear that the public mood has shiftedItโs nearly nine years now since Britain lost its collective mind.More than enough time, then, to put the Brexit referendum into p…
Without U.S. security guarantees and a firm โporcupine strategyโ to make sure Kyiv is heavily armed, this deal will just be a way station in Putinโs bid to subjugate the country.
As Trumpโs 100 days in office edges closer, Anne checks in from DC to bring us all the latest on a domestically difficult week for the US president. Also, will the upcoming Canadian elections be a referendum on Trump from its biggest neighbours? Sam and Anne discuss what the global ramifications of that result might [โฆ]
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah, tells POLITICO the West must create a โstrike fundโ to support civil resistance and paralyze the government.
The vote is expected to be highly competitive and may reshape the countryโs political landscape.
“I don’t want to drive our EU accession talks based on fear,” Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrรบn Frostadรณttir told Euronews in an interview.
A super secret guide of all the top ways to muscle in on the U.K.’s broken election system.
The president is pleased with Musk but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.
Armed with tech billions, Jan Sramek has dreams of creating a new, affordable, walkable city. If, that is, California lets him.
Belgian comedian (and Prime Minister) Bart De Wever’s 9 best quotes from the European Council summit.
An agreement is ready to be signed, but Azerbaijan has a few last requirements.
The Democrats party comes first, after its leader clapped back at the U.S. president, saying Greenland is not for sale.
Mark Carney led the Bank of England for seven years, his term spanning Britain’s referendum to leave the EU, the years of torturous negotiations with Brussels, and its final departure.
Reform UK leader’s falling-out with a fellow MP is the latest in a long list of quarrels with allies.
Tuesday’s election is set to be one of the most consequential in the island’s history.
Heโs an unlikely pin-up for electoral reform campaigners โ but a 2029 surge thatโs not matched by House of Commons seats could see Farage turn up the heat on a “rigged” system.
As red tape and higher costs hammer British designers, France is ready to pounce.
Our reporter breaks down whatโs really going on in the Arctic.
The centrist Lib Dems hope standing up to the U.S. president will shore up support from progressive Brits.
Ulla Neergaard, Professor of EU Law, University of Copenhagen
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*This contribution draws upon Ulla
Neergaardโs forthcoming work, โโEurarcticโ: Colonialism and EU-Greenland…
Separatist leaders said they will take a Russian loan to pay for supplies despite an EU aid offer.
The Fatherland Union of Brigitte Haas won over 38 percent of votes in the constitutional hereditary monarchy.
Greenlandic parliament calls for snap election for 11 March as ruling party, Siumut, proposes accelerating independence processGerman chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday that US president Donald Trump was wrong to impose sanctions on the internationa…
Prime minister wants election on March 11.
The U.S. president hinted heโll spare Britain from his trade war, while hammering the EU. But as Nigel Farage surges in the polls, Keir Starmer isnโt safe from Brexit yet.
Former British prime ministers sign up to offer their wisdom at the Washington Speakers Bureau.
Election has become a referendum on the centre-right leaderโs judgment
Domestically and on the world stage, the PM faces a series of challenges as he seeks to reset post-Brexit relationsKeir Starmer says he wants โambitious security partnershipโ with EUWhichever way you slice it, Keir Starmerโs invitation to dinner in Bru…
Brexit has remained a divisive force in Britain ever since the 2016 referendum was announced. For Brexit supporters, the UK is now a sovereign nation in charge of its own destiny. For opponents, Britain has become an isolated and diminished country. N…
Five years ago, the U.K. officially left the bloc after almost five decades of membership that had brought free movement and free trade between Britain and 27 other European countries. For Brexit supporters, the U.K. was now a sovereign nation in char…
Donald Tusk was leader of the European Council from 2014 to 2019 during tense Brexit negotiations.
โClearly the situation has changed dramatically since โ85,โ when Greenland left the EU, senior lawmaker says.
Kremlin whacks the U.S. with claim about vote-meddling.
U.S. President Donald Trump is obsessed with taking over the massive Arctic island. But locals aren’t convinced.
Survey lands as Danish prime minister tours Europe to try shore up support for keeping the Arctic island out of American clutches.
The economy minister and Green Party chancellor candidate says Germany could follow Austriaโs far-right path, as the CDU signals willingness to erode its firewall against the AfD ahead of a pivotal election.
And Catalonia’s new President wants to shoot it dead.
Even if a referendum takes place, the results will have little clout.
The post PiS candidate vows ‘unrealistic’ referendum on EU Green Deal appeared first on Euractiv.
PM Keir Starmer’s center-left government is holding its breath as Trump’s second term gets going.
Trump’s former chief strategist fears his old boss won’t make a clean break and stop military aid to Kyiv.
His remarks risk frustrating President-elect Donald Trump.
The president denies all wrongdoing in the face of some of the largest protests in the country’s history.
The post Serbiaโs Vuฤiฤ offers advisory referendum on his presidency appeared first on Euractiv.
A union with far-right ties is proposing tighter controls on agri-food products entering France.
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In a country where the return to democracy in 1974 resulted in a referendum against the re-establishment of the monarchy, this decision, and the family name chosen by the descendants, have provoked strong criticism.
The former Scottish first minister on SNP scandals, falling out with Alex Salmond โ and why pressure for a new referendum will return
Donald Trump might be eyeing Greenlandโs strategic position in the Arctic and its mineral reserves, but heโs forgetting the U.S. is already getting all it wants from the island.
On December 1, the Irish rejected the country’s pro-reunification party in the parliamentary elections. The Scottish pro-independence party’s strategy was shattered in 2022 after the country’s Supreme Court said any referendum on independence would hav…
The South Caucasus country is considering talks with Brussels on joining the bloc.
Mette Frederiksen stresses that America doesn’t call the shots on the strategically important Arctic island’s future.
The island is strategically located but apparently not for sale.
Our California ballot-measure reporter heads to Switzerland on the 150th anniversary of its first federal referendum to see what a state mad about direct democracy can take away from the country that devised i
โIt is now time to take the next step for our country,โ Greenlandic Prime Minister Mรบte Egede says in hinting at 2025 referendum.
The Moscow-backed breakaway region is unable to heat homes after being cut off by Kremlin patrons.
The new government plans to put the question of EU membership to a referendum, which the governing parties said they hope will take place no later than 2027.
The post Iceland gets new government under Social Democrat Frostadottir appeared first on Eura…
Iceland’s incoming government says it will put EU membership to referendum by 2027
EU-Swiss single market trade deal faces challenging referendumย
Keir Starmer praises incoming ambassador โ a former European trade commissioner โ for his “unrivalled experience,” as former colleagues rate his chances in Trumpworld.
French president’s comments were met with accusations of neocolonialism.
Brussels and Bern have been negotiating the partnership agreement for ten years, with several hiccups along the way.
He’s an anti-Brexit advocate for closer China ties โ but could Peter Mandelson charm Trumpworld?
Activists say ombudsmanโs findings โbased on rigorous evidence 60% had no ideaโ of changesScottish ministers are to set up a pilot project to test the automatic enrolment of young people on the electoral register, as part of a modernisation of Holyrood…
Snap elections will be a referendum on Scholzโs failed coalition. But our leaderless drift is disastrous for EuropeIt was certainly not one of those rather bland debates the Bundestag, the German parliament, is deservedly known for. On Monday, Olaf Sch…
Rachel Reeves has spoken of a reset in EU relations. Here, experts in everything from music to farming explain what they hope it will meanEarlier this week, the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said she was hoping talks in the new year could lead to an ex…
The Kremlin will use tactics similar to its campaigns to influence the 2024 presidential vote and the referendum to join the EU, Alexandru Musteaศa warns MPs.
In todayโs edition of the Capitals, find out more about the economic benefits of Romania’s full Schengen accession, Polandโs Morawiecki set to replace Meloni as ECR head, and so much more.ย
The post Italian court ok’s referendum on controversial …
The European Commission had also previously rejected the law.
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Romanian tax authorities are now investigating ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu and the TikTok activists who promoted his campaign.
The Uranium-rich nation, which suffers from chronic energy shortages, approved plans to build a nuclear power plant in a referendum earlier this year, despite lingering resentment over massive radiation exposure from Soviet-era nuclear tests.
Fears are rife that under Cฤlin Georgescu the country would join the EU’s far-right bloc and undermine European unity in the face of Russia.
Kyiv knows that it will have to recalibrate and take care not to get on Trumpโs bad side, hence Zelenskyyโs emphasizing the importance of exploring diplomatic solutions.
The idea of a referendum to join the EU may be back on the table.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili called for โresistanceโ to prevent the countryโs โreturn to Russia.โ
Former German chancellorโs book tells how she tried to help David Cameron win over Britainโs EuroscepticsAngela Merkel has said she was โtormentedโ over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it as a โhumiliation, a disgraceโ for the EU that Br…
Head of the Central Electoral Commission was doused with black paint as hundreds of opposition supporters staged a protest against the vote.
The EU likes to underline that enlargement towards the east is a security priority. And indeed, since the war in Ukraine started, accession negotiations have begun with several countries, most of them in the Balkans. But in a shock referendum result, …
Peter Mandelson could be heading Stateside after a long and notorious career in British public life.
Petition demands council hold binding referendum on issue after local people say they have been priced outHousing activists in Lisbon are to hand over a petition, signed by more than 6,600 residents, calling on city officials to agree to hold a binding…
Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years.
U.S. election night 2024 promises to be a sober affair in Europe.
Security services warned of efforts to disrupt and distort voting at overseas polling stations.
Election pollsters may be โherdingโ and giving the impression Trump is stronger than he really is, Focaldata research suggests.
Authorities tell POLITICO they are working to fight Russian interference after first-round vote was marred by allegations of bribery and intimidation.
Moscow’s “disruptive activities” could include fake bomb threats, according to documents obtained by Welt am Sonntag.
Former U.S. president says “war hawkโ Harris supporter Liz Cheney should see how she feels with guns “trained on her face.โ
Corina Stoianoglo posts selfies with ECB president while her father strives to keep her fellow-citizens out of the EU.
The party has gone too far down the path of Eurosceptic delusion to have a rational debate about its legacyThe Conservative leadership contest that concludes this weekend has followed a familiar pattern. What is left of a moderate centre-right Tory ten…
Opposition MPs refuse to take up their seats, raising the prospect of a one-party system. Protests loom.
The opposition disputed the results of its election after officials said the ruling party led the crucial vote which could decide whether the country pivots to embrace the West or falls back into Russia’s orbit. Many Georgians viewed the election as a …
Lawmakers said there were valid doubts about whether voters could make an informed, autonomous and responsible decision on such an issue.
A scenario concerning observers is that both sides are sure of victory on Saturday and could be reluctant to accept defeat.
Opposition activists and journalists warn of efforts to silence them as police raid Western businesses and the homes of think-tank employees.
