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“The presence of six Our Party and six Democracy at Home deputies adds unpredictable voices to a parliament that, until Sunday, PAS controlled outright.”
“During fiscal year 2022, the CSRS enrolled 1.6% of federal employees.”
“In December 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report describing a "pseudoscientific" network of anti-LGBTQ groups, including SEGM.”
“Hungary blocked access to 12 Ukrainian news websites.”
“In June 2024, the SPLC officially designated SEGM a hate group, catalysing an activist campaign against Guyatt's team.”
“Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has won a parliamentary majority with 50.2% of the vote”
“On 14 August, Guyatt and four colleagues published a statement on McMaster's website disavowing SEGM.”
“estimated 55 seats in the 101-member legislature”
“On a 30 July call, Guyatt reportedly expressed unhappiness that the team's papers had been cited in a US Department of Health and Human Services report concluding that the known and potential harms of these interventions were so concerning…”
“Patriotic Bloc finished a distant second with 24.18%”
“In 2023, Michael Bailey, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, saw his paper on "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" retracted after an activist campaign.”
“Turnout was 51.9%, with 1.59 million citizens casting ballots.”
“276,000 Moldovans voted abroad, overwhelmingly for PAS.”
“The disqualification removed perhaps 5-7% of the potential pro-Russia vote from the ballot.”
“Moldova has completed the first cluster of negotiation chapters, fundamentals including judiciary reform and anti-corruption, but the remaining 32 chapters cover areas where the country's administrative capacity is thin.”
“Romania and Bulgaria took roughly a decade from opening negotiations to accession; Croatia took eight years.”
“roughly 12,000 did so.”
“Moldovan authorities had effectively disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of citizens living in Russia by providing only two polling stations, one in Moscow, one in St Petersburg, for an estimated diaspora of 300,000 to 500,000.”
“'already put forward six major simplification proposals in this mandate' and would deliver 'another two this year'”
“a moratorium on new reporting requirements until 2027”
“this year the figure has more than tripled to over $300 million, a sum the prime minister, Dorin Recean, equated to more than 1 per cent of Moldova's gross domestic product.”
“In June 2024, the European Council opened accession negotiations with Moldova and Ukraine simultaneously, a milestone that would have been unthinkable before the war.”
“In total, more than 20 parties and coalitions are registered, though a 5 per cent threshold will limit parliamentary representation.”
“Chief Viorel Cernăuțeanu said Russia invested more than $100 million in last year's presidential election, when pro-Russian forces came close to winning.”
“The European Commission has proposed delaying the EU Deforestation Regulation for a second consecutive year, confirming that the bloc's flagship environmental supply-chain law will not take effect before the end of 2026 at the earliest.”
“the executive had written to the Council of the EU and the European Parliament requesting a further 12-month extension”
“The regulation, adopted in 2023, requires operators and traders placing cocoa, coffee, cattle, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood on the EU market to prove the products were not produced on land deforested or degraded after 31 December 2020.”
“Non-compliance carries fines of up to 4 percent of annual EU turnover.”
“the information system, known as the EUDR registry, must ingest, validate and risk-score due-diligence statements from an estimated 180,000 operators.”
“For large companies, the new deadline would be 30 December 2026; for micro and small enterprises, 30 June 2027.”
“The EU's own consumption footprint, the deforestation embedded in its imports, accounts for roughly 16 percent of global tropical deforestation linked to international trade, according to a 2023 Commission assessment.”
“A study published in August in the journal Nature Climate Change estimated that deforestation in the tropics caused more than 500,000 heat-related deaths between 2003 and 2022.”
“Another paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that about 75 percent of the observed decline in Amazon rainfall since the 1970s is directly attributable to forest clearance.”
“The law was originally scheduled to apply from 30 December 2024.”
“The Commission's own impact assessment acknowledged that millions of smallholders in producer countries would need support to generate the required geolocation data.”
“The EUDR requires the Commission to classify producer countries by deforestation risk by 30 June 2025.”
“The Commission's letters to the Council of the EU and the European Parliament were sent on 23 September.”
“The EUDR page on the Commission's environment directorate still lists the 30 December 2025 date, unchanged since the first postponement.”
“backed by 43 countries”
“Sébastien Lecornu becomes France's fourth prime minister in 14 months”
“The National Assembly voted 364 to 194 to topple François Bayrou's government”
“borrowing to 114 per cent of GDP”
“National Rally leader calculates that forcing new elections serves her party better than letting Macron's camp own an unpopular €43.8 billion austerity package”
“Prime minister faces near-certain defeat on 8 September with only 210 government deputies against 353 opposition MPs”
“Far‑right party signals it may withdraw support for minority government, raising prospect of fresh political crisis just four months after Barnier's fall”
“Support for Le Pen's party runs at about 33 percent in recent polls, and a far-right/conservative coalition looks increasingly plausible, particularly, Purseigle notes, if the left fragments further.”
“26 of Ukraine's allies had formally committed to sending forces "by land, sea or air" to provide security guarantees once fighting halts.”
“The war has now ground on for 42 months since the full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
“Russia has illegally annexed five Ukrainian territories but holds full control of only one, Crimea.”
“Trump has already called the expected quarter-point cut 'too little, too late.'”
“An Ifop poll conducted in the hours after Bayrou's television appearance found 63 percent of respondents favoured returning to the ballot box. Among National Rally voters the figure reached 86 percent.”
“With the National Rally's 125 deputies added to the left's tally, the government lacks the votes to survive unless a significant number of centrist or right-wing deputies break ranks.”
“the provisional tariff truce struck at Turnberry, Scotland, in late July”
“Nominations opened at midday on 19 August and close at midday on 2 September”
“a process that requires candidates to secure the backing of either 20 members of the Oireachtas or four local authorities”
“Fine Gael holding 35 Dáil seats and four Senate seats after the last election”
“the presidential election must be held before 11 November, when Michael D Higgins completes his second seven-year term”
“setting a polling date that allows at least four weeks of campaigning”
“Higgins won 56% on the first count against five opponents”
“Liadh Ní Riada secured only 6.4%”
“the 2011 election, which featured seven candidates”
“Independent candidates require either 20 Oireachtas nominations or four county councils”
“the 2018 race also featured a businessman, a senator and three independents”
“The centrepiece arrived on 19 May 2025 when Ursula von der Leyen travelled to London to sign the first formal bilateral treaty between the EU and the UK since the Trade and Cooperation Agreement entered force in 2021.”
“Hugo Dixon, founder of Breakingviews and a veteran of the Remain campaign, cites YouGov polling showing that only 30% of Britons now think leaving the EU was the right decision, while nearly two-thirds want a closer relationship and 55% wo…”
“the Trade and Cooperation Agreement entered force in 2021.”
“Nawrocki secured 50.89 per cent in the second round, a margin of roughly 400,000 votes out of more than 21 million cast.”
“trade agreements usually take 18 to 24 months”
“The president has made no secret of his desire to be remembered as a 'peacemaker and unifier'”
“Trump acknowledged before the meeting that he saw a 50-50 chance of reaching even a framework”
“The Intelligence and Security Committee's Russia report, finally published in July 2020 after the Johnson government initially blocked its release, found that no one in government had asked whether Russian interference had affected the ref…”
“Legislatively, the National Security Act 2023 introduced a foreign interference registration scheme, new offences for sabotage and interference with critical infrastructure, and expanded powers for the security services.”
“The Defending Democracy Taskforce continues its work assessing threats to the next general election, expected by August 2025.”
“While the threat posed by disinformation 'should not be underestimated', the court observed that the precise impact of Russian or other interference efforts was 'difficult to assess accurately' and in particular 'the impact that they may h…”
“Crucially, the court affirmed that states enjoy a 'wide margin of appreciation' in determining how to tackle attempts at electoral interference.”
“The court noted that Corbyn was unaware of the dissemination effort.”
“The move, confirmed by the Labour government on Thursday, will add an estimated 1.5 million teenagers to the electoral register”
“The newly enfranchised cohort represents roughly 2.5% of the total electorate”
“the public opposes the change by a 48% to 27% margin”
“a 2022 paper estimated that votes at 16 increased aggregate turnout by 1.2 percentage points over a decade”
“up to 8 million eligible voters are missing from the register”
“New offences will criminalise false or misleading declarations by donors, with fines up to £500,000”
“cutting the Common Agricultural Policy budget by more than a fifth for the next seven-year cycle”
“unveiled a €300 billion envelope for 2028-2034 on Wednesday, down from the €386.6 billion allocated for the current period”
“The reduction amounts to 22 percent before inflation is taken into account”
“Of that sum, €291.1 billion is earmarked for income and sectoral support, direct payments and market measures, while €95.5 billion goes to rural development programmes”
“When the envelope shrinks by €86.6 billion, both pillars shrink”
“The Common Agricultural Policy was born in 1962 as a bargain between France and Germany”
“peaking at 73 percent in 1985 before a long decline to roughly one third today”
“agriculture accounts for 1.3 percent of EU gross value added but commands a budget larger than the next three policy areas combined”
“France, Germany, Italy and Spain, the four largest agricultural producers, are all running deficits above the 3 percent of GDP threshold set by the Stability and Growth Pact”
“The new fiscal rules, agreed in 2024, require debt reduction paths that leave little room for new permanent spending”
“This dynamic played out during the 2021-2027 negotiations, when several member states topped up direct payments from national budgets. The amounts were modest, a few hundred million euros each, and temporary”
“The Commission's proposal for the next cycle has not yet been published in full, but leaked drafts suggest a shift toward performance-based payments”
“The European Court of Auditors has repeatedly found that CAP spending on climate action is overstated; a 2023 special report concluded that most "climate-relevant" payments fund practices with little or no mitigation effect”
“The legislative process formally begins when the Commission transmits its proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework regulation, expected in the coming weeks”
“The Council will negotiate in parallel with the Parliament, aiming for a political agreement by late 2026 or early 2027”
“The agriculture committee's opinion, due this autumn, will set the tone”
“farmers' organisations are planning a larger mobilisation for September, when ministers meet informally in Warsaw”
“The Polish presidency of the Council, which takes over in January 2026, has signalled it wants to protect the CAP envelope”
