WARSAW, July 17 (Reuters) – Poland’s president vetoed two bills on Friday that would have introduced “cohabitation contracts” for couples living together, dealing a blow to same-sex couples in one of the few European Union countries with limited rights for … Read More
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that she will run for president in 2027 despite being sentenced to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement. An appeals court earlier Tuesday upheld her conviction in March last year over … Read More
Hungary’s contentious veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine is fast approaching its end after the restoration of the Druzhba oil pipeline. The European Union has formally launched the internal process to unblock the €90 billion loan for Ukraine … Read More
The magnitude of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat is surprising, perhaps even shocking. The fact his Fidesz party lost by a solid margin, however, should have surprised no one. Orbán is widely derided by Western elites as an autocrat, and … Read More
HELSINKI, March 26 (Reuters) – Finland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday found a member of parliament guilty and fined her for calling homosexuality a “developmental disorder”, in a long-running precedent case that has turned into a political tussle over the limits … Read More
ZURICH, March 16 (Reuters) – The Swiss government on Monday pressed the electorate to reject an initiative aimed at restricting the population to 10 million, which it argues will jeopardise cooperation with the European Union and damage the economy. The … Read More
“Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old world order, for a world that has gone and will not return,” Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday. The traditional world order is rapidly crumbling under mounting violations of … Read More
“We should not tie together things that are not connected to each other at all,” High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday amid a new crisis caused by back-to-back Hungarian vetoes. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s … Read More
Protesting French farmers entered the centre of Paris and reached the Eiffel Tower on Thursday amid anger over a free-trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur South American bloc. French farmers blockaded sites in Paris on Thursday in protest against a … Read More
Finnish authorities seized a vessel on Wednesday, suspected of sabotaging an undersea telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea. Finnish police seized on Wednesday a ship sailing from Russia suspected of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estoniaacross … Read More