European Union leaders agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen of Germany for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission at a summit in Brussels, where they also picked former Portuguese premier Antonio Costa as the future chair of European Council meetings and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as the next EU foreign policy chief. France 24's Dave Keating takes a look at what happens next.
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
After Marine Le Pen’s National Rally walloped Emmanuel Macron in the first round of voting in the French elections, there is a real chance France could be governed by a hard-Right party for the first time since the Second World War.
The prime minister had insisted life was "better" now than when the party came to power in 2010.
East Preston feels an unlikely stronghold of benefits dependency. The genteel village on the West Sussex coast might be the closest thing that Britain has to a moneyed pensioner utopia.
Nigel Farage was initially unaware that the Russian president was on the poster, with the words ‘I heart Nigel’ written below
Democrats are laying the groundwork for Joe Biden to make a “dignified” exit from the presidential race.
In the upper-echelons of the Labour Party, as they consider a UK run by them (and such is their confidence, the urinal-equipped chancellor’s loo is being reassessed ready for the first female occupant of the role), a name is whispered with a worried nod of the head and a concerned furrowing of the brow.
The former GOP lawmaker called the former president's latest move proof he's "not a stable adult."
When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.
Business community decries ‘act of arson’ as one-seventh of trade posts within British consulates in the US are scrapped
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
While many are focused on President Biden’s debate performance, Dean Obeidallah says it was former President Trump’s statements during the event that gave offense.
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
The meeting was pre-planned but was a timely opportunity for Biden to discuss the future of his campaign with the most influential people in his life.
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the cause is largely frustration with the consequences of being in the EU. In Britain, it is largely a backlash against being out of it.
On Tuesday, the BBC led with a report about personal protective equipment (PPE) worth nearly £1.5 billion going unused. It was, we were told in scandalised tones, rotting away in warehouses.
Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reforms have loomed over his second presidential term – and could now be his undoing.
The Conservative leader defended his party’s record in government against what he described as a ‘declinist narrative’.
A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a Saturday afternoon call with dozens of committee members across the country, a group of some of the most influential members of the party.
The far right party are in the lead after the first round, according to exit polls.
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