**This article has been updated with comments from officials of the Hungarian government The European Commission announced on Tuesday (5 April) that it will trigger a conditionality mechanism linking EU funds to the rule of law, just days after Hungary’s…
Mr. Upton is the fourth House Republican who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump to decline to run for re-election. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The former president’s daughter and adviser was in the West Wing with him as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. She is said to have tried to persuade him to call off the rioters. Send any friend a story As…
Even as massacred civilians are found in the streets and ditches of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Germany still prefers short-term gains through the energy trade with Russia to protecting the rules based world order that made it rich.…
In the latest French presidential election polls, the gap between Emmanuel Macron and opponent Marine Le Pen is narrowing, despite optimism from the incumbent’s camp at a recent campaign meeting. EURACTIV France reports. After a ‘rally round the flag’ effect…
The German government has, effective immediately, transferred the ownership of the German Gazprom subsidiary to the federal network agency as a trustee in a bid to save the country’s gas market. On Friday (1 April), Gazprom Germania found itself transferred…
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US President Joe Biden on Monday (4 April) called for the prosecution of Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes over the discovery in Bucha, Ukraine, of mass graves and bodies of bound civilians shot at close range, but various…
Emboldened by a fourth consecutive landslide election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is expected to dig in against energy sanctions on Russia and toughen his stance in talks with Brussels to unlock frozen EU funds. Nationalist Orbán, who held on…
Endorsed by Donald Trump for Alaska’s lone House seat, the former vice-presidential candidate hopes she can mount a political comeback. But she’s not the phenomenon she once was. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift…