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Will there be new far-right groups at the European Parliament for the just started legislative mandate? Negotiations are ongoing to constitute old and maybe new political far-right group at the European Parliament, including the meeting today (Wednesday 26 June) of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) that will elect its co-presidents. Radio Schuman talked with Euronews journalist Vincenzo Genovese about the ongoing negotiations and divisions within the far-right and which are the possible scenario about group formation. We dive into the re-appointment of Valerie Hayer as the presid...
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The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is not being investigated by the Gambling Commission as it continues its probe into bets placed on the date of the general election. Sunak also said his party, the Conservatives, are set to conduct their own internal investigation into the allegations. They have dogged the party’s campaign for reelection, some ten days ahead of the general election. Speaking to the press in Scotland, Sunak insisted his party "will act" if the Conservatives' own inquiry into the alleged betting scandal finds any wrongdoing. "The Gambling Commission is independe...
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to cut taxes and reduce immigration if his Conservative Party is re-elected in the general election on 4 July. Sunak held the manifesto launch at Silverstone motor racing circuit in central England, home of the British Grand Prix, and it could be one of his last big chances to get his spluttering campaign back on track. His central pitch was the claim that a government led by Labour's Keir Starmer would raise taxes, while a Conservative one would lower them. In its manifesto, the party pledged £17billion (€20billion) in tax cuts by 2030, to be paid for...
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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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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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