A Loud Republican Minority Opposes More Ukraine Military Aid
Hawkish senior Republicans aside, there is evidence to suggest that the anti-Ukraine flank of the party is playing not to the fringe but to the heart of its base. Send…
May 2023
‘No Labels’ Eyes a Third-Party Run Against Biden and Trump. Is Joe Manchin Interested?
The centrist group is gaining steam — and raising money — in its effort to get a candidate on the 2024 ballot, with Joe Manchin at the top of their…
The Brief — A war on woke, but what else?
It is a truism that a political movement debating its reasons for existing knows it’s in trouble. It’s no surprise that the National Conservatism conference held in London this week…
Russia slams French parliament for calling Holodomor ‘genocide’
The French Senate adopted a resolution recognising the Holodomor famine as genocide in a move that ‘rewrites history’, said the Russian Embassy in France on Thursday. The resolution was adopted…
Polish ruling camp restarts capital punishment debate
Following the gruesome death of an eight-year-old child at the hands of his stepfather, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reopened the topic of reinstating the death penalty, with over half of…
Spain violated Catalan independentist leader’s political rights, UN rules
Spain violated current MEP and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s political rights – and those of his constituents – by stripping him of his regional parliamentary seat, the UN Human…
Vienna divided over demining aid for Ukraine
As a constitutionally neutral country, Austria has not restricted itself to humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine but has not gone further than delivering helmets, however, leading members of the…
The 150 lawmakers fighting for LGBTI rights in the EU Parliament
The LGBTI Intergroup at the European Parliament watches over member states and the Commission closely while also influencing legislative files ‘to make sure the LGBTI community is not forgotten’, Greens/EFA…
Spanish court opens investigation into alleged postal voting fraud
A local court in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla, on the North African coast, has opened an investigation into an alleged case of postal voting fraud after an unusual…
Tim Scott Is Set to Join 2024 Race, Already Flush With Campaign Cash
The South Carolina senator will announce his campaign on Monday and then head to Iowa and New Hampshire. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have