Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to fight for the “precious, precious union” of the United Kingdom, unveiling what she called her Plan for Britain with a warning to Scotland not to pursue its independence plans at the moment. May underlined she would negotiate a Brexit deal for the whole country but needed everyone to pull…
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Osborne to edit Lebedev’s newspaper
Russian oligarch Evgeny Lebedev (pictured) engaged George Osborne as an editor of London’s Evening Standard newspaper. Osborne lost his job as British finance minister in the aftermath of the EU referendum in June, the appointment for the mass-media job came as as a surprise on Friday. “I am proud to have an editor of such…
Defence: MEPs to upgrade EDA
Increasing defence cooperation in the EU now depends more upon the political will to make it happen than upon legal considerations, say MEPs in a resolution approved by Parliament on Thursday. They stress that member states can and should use the treaty tools in place to build a truly common defence policy. MEPs want…
Dutch enter coalition limbo
There is no ‘absolute’ winner in Dutch general elections as the three leading parties together received less than half of the votes. The situation is not an easy one for forming a functional coalition government. Mark Rutte is not new to Dutch politics, subsequently he is expected to carry on the task of creating a…
Queen grants Brexit launch power to May
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Thursday formally granted Prime Minister Theresa May the power to trigger exit talks with the European Union, approving legislation which passed through parliament late on Monday. The announcement, made in parliament by speaker John Bercow, confirms that May can begin divorce talks at any time, although her spokesman hinted on Monday…
Dutch vote: Mark Rutte leads with 32 seats
Preliminary results of #DutchElections Liberal VVD: 32 seats Conservative CDA: 20 Far-right PVV: 19 Liberal D66: 18 Greens: 14 (source: ANP) Preliminary results of #DutchElectionsLiberal VVD: 32 seatsConservative CDA: 20Far-right PVV: 19Liberal D66: 18Greens: 14(source: ANP) pic.twitter.com/1xVH98jK4T — DW Europe (@dw_europe) March 16, 2017
Rutte receives congratulations as major winner of Dutch elections
France congratulates Dutch for ‘stemming’ rise of far-right: France’s foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has congratulated the Dutch people for seeing off the challenge of the far-right led by Geert Wilders after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s centre-right party appeared to win the national election on Wednesday, 15 March 2017. .@JunckerEU just spoke with @markrutte, congratulated him on…
Polls suggest Mark Rutte wins 31 seats
According to bureau Ipsos VVD – 31 seats PVV, CDA and D66 together 19 seats. GroenLinks – 16 zetels. De SP komt op 14.
Stations are about to close
The first estimations are awaited after the closure of the stations from 21:00 onwards.
Dutch elections: high turnout
At 5:45 p.m. (1645 GMT), turnout was 55 percent, seven points higher than in 2012, according to an Ipsos exit poll. In Amsterdam, a quarter of people had voted by 1200 GMT, compared with 14 percent in 2012.
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