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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Hanne COKELAERE |Claudia Chiappa |Mari Eccles
Rein Bellens cast an anxious glance in her rearview mirror. She was driving from the Belgian city of Ghent to the small seaside village of Groede in the Netherlands, with an 18-year-old woman joining her for the short 60-kilometer drive. It was the late 1970s, and abortion was still illegal in Belgium. The young woman had been raped and was carrying the baby of her assailant. She had turned to Bellens for help, and the young doctor had found a clinic just across the border.
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3 weeks ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Hanne COKELAERE |Ali Walker |Pieter Haeck
Po gorącej dyskusji na temat stanowiska rządu w sprawie azylu Partia Wolności (PVV) Geerta Wildersa opuściła koalicję. "Nie podpiszemy naszych planów dotyczących azylu. Nie wprowadzimy zmian do umowy [koalicyjnej]. PVV opuszcza koalicję" – napisał Wilders na Twitterze.
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1 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 21, 2025 | 
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.
