Dec 7, 2024 · What’s happening? This Sunday, Romanians were due to vote in the second-round runoff election for their next president. They had two candidates to pick from: center-right small-town mayor Elena Lasconi; or Călin Georgescu, a far-right independent who was catapulted from obscurity into the lead in the first round of voting on Nov. 24.. On Friday, Romania’s Constitutional Court decided the ...

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May 24, 2024 · Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls.Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, is polling second ...

Dec 8, 2024 · KYIV — Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in action and 370,000 more were wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in Kyiv's first disclosure of total casualty figures in the the nearly three-year conflict.. Zelenskyy announced the figures in a Telegram post on Sunday after United States ...

Dec 29, 2024 · Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office, warned on Sunday that Russia may escalate its hybrid warfare tactics beyond sabotage of European infrastructure. "It is worth considering the risks of hybrid threats appearing on the borders," Yermak wrote in a post on Telegram. "The shadow fleet that sabotages cables may not be the only such threat from the Russian Federation."

Dec 18, 2024 · Opinions differ on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin genuinely intended to take on the so-called collective West, guns blazing. But there is a broad consensus that he expected the war to be over in a matter days — and that he, with reason, counted on the West to answer with the condemn-but-mostly-accept attitude that it had shown toward his earlier land grabs in Ukraine, Moldova and ...

Germany — 2024 state election results. In state elections in September, the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany was on display. In the key Brandenburg state, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats narrowly held off AfD.

Dec 26, 2024 · "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and victims of Azerbaijan Airlines flight J28243," NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah said in a post on X Thursday. "We wish those injured in the crash a speedy recovery and call for a full investigation."

Nov 6, 2024 · Trade “America First” will again sum up Trump’s approach to trade policy. He’s vowed to bring back jobs to the U.S. and punish friends and foes with across-the-board tariffs of 10 or 20 percent (and up to 60 percent on goods coming from China), despite economists’ warnings of a detrimental impact on U.S. economic growth and higher costs for consumers.

Dec 5, 2024 · He denounced Orbán’s cronyism, closeness to Russia, and betrayal of the EU, launching a public movement based on these slogans with seas of red, white and green flags, largely imitating what Fidesz did 20 to 25 years ago.. The movement, which evolved into the Tisza Party, thwarted Fidesz’s political machine, winning 29 percent of the vote in June’s EU election.