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“Rutte listed four Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as backers of the purchase plan”
“The United States Senate passed the GENIUS Act on 17 June 2025”
“Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election. The conservative candidate backed by Law and Justice (PiS) secured 50.9% of the vote in the 1 June run‑off”
“In the 30 days that followed, more than 53,000 complaints were filed with the Supreme Court, an unprecedented number.”
“Justice Minister Adam Bodnar argued that statistical anomalies justified a recount at 1,472 polling stations.”
“Judge Maria Szczepaniec, reading the majority resolution, acknowledged 21 confirmed irregularities”
“The head of the National Electoral Commission, Sylwester Marciniak, appointed under PiS, supported the chamber, stating the commission 'did not find any violations of electoral law that could have influenced the voting results and the elec…”
“The European Commission has tied the release of €35.4 billion in cohesion funds and €23.9 billion in recovery grants to judicial reforms that reverse PiS-era changes.”
“In 2021, the Court ruled that the KRS reform undermined judicial independence.”
“In 2023, it found that the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, another PiS creation, lacked independence.”
“roughly 400,000 votes out of more than 21 million cast”
“The run‑off on 1 June produced a tight result: Nawrocki 50.9%, Trzaskowski 49.1%.”
“secured a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday by 243 votes to 210”
“The vote was called by Tusk himself after his coalition's presidential candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, lost the 1 June run-off to Karol Nawrocki”
“There were no abstentions”
“the government had overseen 'a complete breakdown of the rule of law in Poland', mismanaged public finances, and favoured German interests over Polish ones”
“on 1 June 2025, the Donald Tusk project ended, just as communism once ended”
“CBOS survey published in May found only 32% of Poles held a positive view of the administration against 44% negative, a net approval of minus 12 points”
“Since December 2023, Duda has vetoed more than a dozen laws, including measures on judicial reform, media ownership transparency, and abortion liberalisation”
“the new spokesperson, likely to be named before the end of June”
“Together's five MPs are not enough to threaten the majority”
“Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's New Democracy party sits at roughly 29 percent in voting intention, down from 30 percent a month ago.”
“In February 2023 two trains were allowed to run on the same line for twelve minutes before colliding at Tempi, killing 57 people in the deadliest rail accident in Greek history.”
“held by 74 percent of respondents in recent polling, that the state is actively concealing responsibility.”
“New Democracy needs roughly 38 percent of the vote to secure a parliamentary majority under the current electoral law, nine points above its current standing.”
“In the 2024 European Parliament election, one in five Greeks voted for a far-right party.”
“The next general election is not constitutionally required until 2027.”
“Ukraine should be a full member of the European Union by 1 January 2030.”
“The negotiation framework covers 35 policy chapters, each requiring unanimous agreement among the 27 member states to open and to close.”
“On March 7 the Hungarian prime minister announced that his government would conduct a national opinion survey on Ukraine's EU membership.”
“In December 2023 the European Council agreed to open accession talks with Ukraine only after a compromise that gave Hungary concessions on EU funds frozen over rule‑of‑law concerns.”
“The Commission's spring package proposes opening that surveillance; the Council of the EU must formally adopt it, which is expected in July”
“The country had not been under strengthened fiscal surveillance for more than ten years”
“which entered into force in April 2024”
“Hungary responded by expelling two Ukrainian diplomats”
“Kyiv expelled two Hungarian diplomats in return.”
“whose Tisza Party leads opinion polls before the April 2026 election.”
“He met Vladimir Putin in Moscow in July 2024”
“who broke with the party in early 2024”
“By late 2024, multiple surveys placed Tisza ahead of Fidesz for the first time since Orban returned to power in 2010.”
“The Vox 2025 questionnaire, delivered to all eight million Hungarian households”
“Orban's stance on Russia has been consistent since 2022.”
“In 2023, he delayed the EU's 50 billion euro Ukraine aid package for months.”
“multiple independent surveys since late 2024 show Tisza ahead of Fidesz by margins of three to eight points.”
“withheld over $150 billion in cohesion and recovery funds from 2015-2023 citing PiS judicial reforms”
“the ongoing unblocking of the €150 billion-plus in frozen funds as Tusk's government reverses PiS judicial changes”
“Dan secured roughly 54% of the vote on Sunday against George Simion, the leader of the far‑right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), who took 46%.”
“Two weeks earlier, after the first round, Simion led by 20 percentage points with 41% to Dan's 21%.”
“Instead, a turnout of 64%, up from 53% in the first round, delivered a decisive mandate for the European path.”
“In Harghita County, where ethnic Hungarians form the majority, Dan took roughly 90% of the vote.”
“Dan's second‑strongest result came from the Republic of Moldova, often called the "second Romanian state" because hundreds of thousands of Moldovans hold Romanian citizenship. There, he won around 88%.”
“More than five million Romanians, almost half the electorate, voted for a candidate who rejects the European consensus, questions the sovereignty of two neighbours and aligns with the Kremlin's narrative on Ukraine.”
“The 11‑point swing between rounds, from a 20‑point deficit to an 8‑point victory, is without precedent.”
“The turnout surge of 11 percentage points, concentrated in cities, indicates that mobilisation, not persuasion alone, decided the outcome.”
“One thousand nine hundred and fifty kilometres.”
“killed sixteen people.”
“Serbia has met none of them.”
“Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia have all satisfied their Reform Agenda obligations and received their tranches.”
“Serbia is the sole Western Balkan candidate left empty-handed.”
“parliamentary elections by mid‑May.”
“they have also announced their intention to field their own electoral list.”
“The EPP is the largest group in the European Parliament.”
“Council compromise text dated 14 April”
“scheduled for a plenary vote on 7 May”
“MEPs voted 318 to 309 against the compromise on sustainability reporting rules”
“Friedrich Merz was sworn in as Germany's tenth federal chancellor on 6 May 2025”
“roughly 12% of GDP”
“AfD holds 152 seats”
“around 24%”
“seven cabinet posts”
“winning only 16.4% of the vote”
“in under two months”
“President Donald Trump's announcement on 2 April of a 10 percent universal tariff on all trading partners, plus 25 percent levies on aluminium, automobiles and steel”
“fewer than 20% of people ordered to leave the bloc are actually returned to their country of origin.”
“Irregular border crossings detected by Frontex fell 38% to 239,000 in 2024 after a near‑decade peak in 2023.”
“The 2023 EU‑Tunisia memorandum, which included €105 million for border management, was explicitly linked to Tunisian cooperation on returns.”
“The file could take 12 to 18 months to conclude.”
“recognition rates are low, below 10% for Bangladeshi applicants in most member states.”
“19-minute speech”
“found guilty of embezzling €474,000 from the European Parliament by employing four fictitious assistants between 2009 and 2017, and of complicity in a broader scheme that diverted €1.8 million in the same manner.”
“a €100,000 fine”
“a five-year ban on standing for public office”
“Her party holds 124 seats after the 2024 legislative elections”
“A poll published by Ifop on 7 April showed 46% of respondents believed the ban was 'a threat to democracy', while 51% thought she should be allowed to run in 2027 regardless of the conviction. Among National Rally voters, the figure rose t…”
“The Paris Court of Appeal has three months to decide whether to transmit the QPC to the Cour de Cassation”
“The Cour de Cassation then has three months to filter it, rejecting it outright or forwarding it to the Constitutional Council. The Council itself has a further three months to rule.”
“The 2022 presidential run-off saw her win 41.5% of the vote against Macron”
“Those changes, adopted in 2018, came too late for the Le Pen case”
“The Parliament's Bureau now publishes quarterly compliance reports, a transparency measure that did not exist when the offences occurred”
“The Paris meeting included representatives from roughly 30 countries”
“The next coalition of the willing meeting is expected in London within the next six weeks”
“The grain corridor agreement brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 allowed Black Sea exports but did not stop Russian strikes”
“Energy infrastructure ceasefires announced in 2024 were similarly violated”
“the coalition of the willing meeting hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on 28 March”
“commands 23 of the 31 seats in the Inatsisartut.”
“secured roughly 30 percent of the vote”
“Atassut, once the dominant unionist party, now holds just two seats.”
“policy brief published on 20 March by the European Council on Foreign Relations”
“travelling to Washington in July 2018 with a 'basket of threats and offers' that deterred the first Trump administration from imposing threatened tariffs on European cars”
“President Aleksandar Vučić sets a 30-day deadline to form a new government or face a snap vote.”
