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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Hanne COKELAERE |Aitor Hernández-Morales
Don’t be fooled by Sunday’s triple election: The hard right is stronger than ever. Centrists breathed a sigh of relief on Sunday as their candidates beat right-wing rivals in three coinciding elections across Europe. In Romania, the centrist Nicușor Dan exceeded expectations in beating far-right firebrand George Simion in a presidential election runoff.
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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.
