With almonst doubling the rival in numbers of votes Emmanuel Macron wins the elections to become the President of France. The supportes of Emmanuel Macron are going to celebrate in Louvre Museum tonight.
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France votes President
After a fiery election campaign imprinted by failure of the mainstreamed parties, the French public began to vote on Sunday, 7.04.2017 to elect their President. The campaign has been followed worldwide, and also interfered by outside politicians and hackers, while the two candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have been struggling for distinctively different,…
House of European History inauguration
An excellent modern museum opens its doors in the Leoplod parc at heart of the European headquarters. The House of European History is commissioned by the European Parliament in an interactive format, engaging citizens in an active construction of their future through reflecting on the past of the European nations. Located in the historic Eastman…
Elections: Macron-Le Pen key TV debate
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen – the elections’ major contestants – meet in a decisive TV debate head to head before Sunday’s decisive second-round vote to choose France’s next president. The debate is called ‘historical’ in many way, also because first time there are no representatives of two major political parties: Republicans (conservatives) and…
Europol strikes terrorism online
A 48-hour international operation against online terrorism and extremism has seen over 2 000 items assessed as harmful and illegal material with the purpose of referring it to the online service providers for removal from the internet. On 25 and 26 April 2017, Europol’s Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) teamed up with colleagues from Belgium,…
Greece reached a deal with creditros
“There was white smoke,” Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said to reporters, hinting on the elections of the Pope. The negotiations for a technical deal were concluded on all issues, and the way has now been paved for debt relief talks, he added. Greece and its foreign creditors reached a deal on a package of bailout-mandated…
Merkel to visit Sochi
Germany’s Angela Merkel will visit Sochi, Russia, for talks on May 2 with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first bilateral visit since Maidan revolution in Ukraine and following sanctions over Crimea in 2014. The talks will be ‘pragmatic’ with no immediate prospect that Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis will be…
Brexit: Merkel aims to disadvantage UK
Although more careful in wording than usual German chancellor Angela Merkel sent her major message to her UK counterpart: after #Brexit the UK should feel the difference of what is being ‘in’ and ‘out’ of the EU. Seemingly setting the UK as the ‘negative’ example remains a political priority chosen as a necessary measure to…
Stoltenberg condemns violence in Skopje
“I strongly condemn yesterday’s attacks on members of Parliament in Skopje. Violence has no place in any parliament. I call on all political actors to show calm, restraint, and respect for the democratic process. Political dialogue is the only reasonable and appropriate way forward, and is in the best interest of all citizens of the…
Scottiish voters unsupportive of second referendum
Most Scottish voters do not wish another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom and support for secession itself enfeebled, according to a Kantar survey. Scots voted by a wide margin to remain in the European Union in last June’s referendum, clashing with the UK as a whole which voted to leave. Scotland’s devolved government,…
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