Austrian Foreign Minister Schallenberg appointed as interim chancellor
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will take over as caretaker chancellor on Wednesday, succeeding Karl Nehammer.
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January 7, 2025 Bulgarian president slams Borissov for prolonging political crisis
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has slammed the GERB party of long-serving former prime minister Boyko Borissov for suspending negotiations to form a permanent government in a country that has held seven general elections in the past four years.
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January 4, 2025 Europe finally has a heavyweight ambassador in Washington.
By Denis MacShane, former UK Minister of Europe in the Blair governments. A man who knows many of Europe’s leaders, he has devoted his adult life to arguing that the European Union needed more unity, more common purpose and can be a power for good for the world.
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January 1, 2025 End of Russian gas via Ukraine sparks unease in eastern Europe
Ukraine’s decision to turn off the taps keeping Russian gas flowing via its territory to Europe has already sown trouble in the continent’s east, with Moldova declaring a state of emergency and Slovakia threatening Kyiv with retaliation.
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December 29, 2024 Elon Musk backs AfD party in German newspaper opinion piece
US billionaire Elon Musk backed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a guest opinion piece for Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper published online on Saturday (28 December) that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest. In the commentary, published in German by the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, Musk expanded on […]
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December 27, 2024 On Christmas Day, Pope Francis calls for talks to end Ukraine war
Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Wednesday (25 December) called for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and has killed tens of thousands.
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December 26, 2024 ‘Presidency’ is the Polish word of 2025
As 2024 draws to a close, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government expects 2025 to be eventful as it assumes the six-month presidency of the Council of the EU and presidential elections that will likely see Tusk’s camp take full power in the country.
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December 25, 2024 Meloni’s mission in 2025: From Trump to the Green Deal
Amid an unusually calm political landscape by Italian standards, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is entering 2025 with high ambitions, including increasing her profile by liaising between the EU and US President Donald Trump and escalating a battle against Europe’s Green Deal.
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December 24, 2024 Romanian coalition government secures parliament confidence vote
Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu’s new coalition government won a parliamentary confidence vote on Monday (23 December) and it now faces the difficult task of steering the country out of a crisis where the far-right has gained ground.
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December 23, 2024 Possible sour grapes for Sánchez in 2025
Spaniards celebrate the start of the new year by eating twelve grapes, one for each month, but 2025 could bring some sour grapes for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D).
