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In a press statement on Wednesday, the party said that its decision was based on its long-standing position that the so-called Spitzenkandidaten process is not fit for purpose. It came after the adoption of the party’s electoral manifesto in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, in a meeting chaired by its president, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and attended by former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The Spitzenkandidaten process, which sees each major political party field a lead candidate to preside over the European Commission, was scuppered in 2019 when Ursula von der Leyen was...
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The Danish Conservative People's Party has elected Mona Juul, 56, as their new leader following the unexpected death of the party's previous leader Søren Pape Poulsen, the Danish news agency Ritzau reported on Sunday. Pape Poulsen suffered a brain haemorrhage during a meeting of the party's executive committee in March and died shortly afterwards. He was 52 and had been party chairman since 2014. Denmark's public broadcaster called Juul's election "the world's smallest surprise." She had been unanimously nominated and had no opposition.
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The highest court in Brussels has allowed of a gathering of far-right European nationalist politicians to continue for a second day, the conference's organisers say, after police tried to shut it down on Tuesday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, French far-right candidate Eric Zemmour, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki were scheduled to speak at the two-day National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Brussels, which had struggled to find a venue in the Belgian capital willing to host it. During the first day of the event, Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage was speaking ...
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The UK government is seeking to curb foreign state influence over the country's media following a United Arab Emirates-backed investment firm's attempt to take over two national publications. During a debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday evening, media minister Stephen Parkinson said the government would propose an amendment to the "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill" currently making its way through Parliament. The amendment would prevent foreign state ownership of newspapers and news magazines, although it would still need to be approved in the House of Lords and the House ...
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French conservatives and far-right figures have taken against the official poster for this summer's Paris Olympics. Failing to see the joyful vibrancy of Ugo Gattoni‘s design, several political voices have fussed over the fact that a Christian cross and the French flag were missing on the images. Those responsible for the image were "ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history", Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the Republicans party wrote on X. Top of the list of complaints about the poster, which depicts a stylised panorama of Paris, is the absence of the cross th...
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To date, nearly 200,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the UK. It’s an astonishingly high figure for the virus that came to the shore in the first months of 2020. The new three-part drama ‘Breathtaking’ on ITV takes viewers inside the healthcare system to witness how doctors desperately tried to keep up with a rapidly spreading virus against inert government advice. The show is based on the book ‘Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic’ by British palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke. During the pandemic, she took note of her experiences within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS...
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London (AFP) - Right-wing thinkers from around the world gathered in London this week, giving an indication of how far Britain's ruling Conservative party could make the so-called culture wars an issue for the general election and beyond. Speakers at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference railed against "woke capitalism", lamented Western decline and hit out at economic regulation and multiculturalism. "The culture war matters," Conservative MP Danny Kruger, from the right wing of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's party, told AFP after interviewing former Australian lea...
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London (AFP) - UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has vowed to lead Britain's Conservatives into the next election -- due within two years -- but after a disastrous six weeks in Downing Street many doubt she will remain leader long. Here are the main contenders who could take over. Rishi Sunak - Truss easily beat the former chancellor of the exchequer in this summer's Tory leadership contest, winning party members over with promises to slash taxes and regulations without curbing government spending. Sunak, 42, repeatedly warned that her plans to fund the proposals through extra borrowing were reckles...
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