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1 week ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Carmen Paun |Hanne COKELAERE |Max Griera
Pierwsza tura wyborów prezydenckich w Rumunii w listopadzie ubiegłego roku została unieważniona z powodu zarzutów o nielegalną kampanię wyborczą i ingerencję Rosji, które pomogły nacjonalistycznemu niezależnemu kandydatowi Calinowi Georgescu wygrać z zaskakującym wynikiem. Skrajna prawica w Rumunii walczy o władzę.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Carmen Paun |Hanne COKELAERE |Max Griera
BUCHAREST — With a nationalist, self-proclaimed Trumpist leading the polls into the first round of the rerun of the Romanian presidential election on Sunday, the big question is: Which candidate can beat him? Romania’s first crack at a presidential election last November was dramatically annulled over allegations of illegal campaigning and Russian interference that helped ultranationalist independent candidate Călin Georgescu emerge as shock winner.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Laurens Cerulus |Hanne COKELAERE |Marianne Gros |Bartosz Brzezinski
BRUSSELS — All European Union laws are lobbied, but some are lobbied more than others. Brussels is known as a rulemaking machine. And, in line with many other political power centers, it is home to a staggering number of people whose job it is to influence the final shape of those rules.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Hanne COKELAERE
BRUSSELS — After hitting just about every other industry he can think of (albeit with a brief pause), Donald Trump’s long-promised tariffs on drugs are around the corner. “We’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals,” he said at a dinner of the National Republican Congressional Committee last week. “And when they hear that, they will leave China.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Hanne COKELAERE |Carmen Paun
The USR decision comes amid fears that Victor Ponta, a leftist-turned-ultranationalist, could qualify for the second round along with Simion. “We cannot allow this to happen. Today we took the decision to support Nicușor Dan because he is the pro-European candidate with the best chances to stop this toxic scenario,” Fritz said. Ponta said earlier his week he would halt Ukrainian grain exports through Romanian ports — a key export route for the war-ravaged country — to protect local farmers.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Aitor Hernández-Morales |Csongor Körömi |Victor Goury-Laffont |Hanne COKELAERE
United States President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are shaping up to be a major headache for his far-right allies in Europe. Washington’s decision to impose a 20 percent levy on all European Union imports is set to disproportionately impact the rural and blue-collar workers that have gravitated toward right-wing populist parties across the bloc. That’s left many European political figures who are the MAGA movement’s biggest cheerleaders in an awkward spot.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gregorio Sorgi |Hanne COKELAERE
BRUSSELS — Europe confiscating almost €200 billion of frozen Russian assets would be “an act of war,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever told reporters late Thursday night. Speaking after a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels, he warned that the move would carry “systemic risks to the entire financial world system” and spark retaliation from Moscow.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Gregorio Sorgi |Hanne COKELAERE
NowIn Germany, ‘Orphaned’ by U.S., Shock Gives Way to ActionNo country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with a new world. The United States gave Germany its democracy and its constitution. It supported German reunification when France and Britain had their doubts.
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2 months ago | 
politico.eu | Bartosz Brzezinski |Max Griera |Hanne COKELAERE
STRASBOURG — The European Commission wants to ensure that when someone is told to leave the EU, they actually leave. That’s the blunt message behind a major migration crackdown unveiled on Tuesday by Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen. The pair rolled out a plan to streamline deportations, toughen penalties for rejected migrants who do not leave the bloc, and create “return hubs” in countries outside the EU to house people awaiting deportation.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
politico.eu | Nette Nöstlinger |Rasmus Buchsteiner |Jürgen Klöckner |Hanne COKELAERE
BERLIN — The question is not who will be Germany’s next chancellor, but rather which of his rivals he’ll govern with. So while we’re fairly sure Friedrich Merz’s conservatives will be in charge — the outcome seems almost nailed on according to the polls — that’s just where the story begins, as the design of Germany’s political system means a coalition of parties is almost inevitable. And while the overall winner of the Feb.
