Nearly half of Scottish voters do not wish another referendum on independence. This issue appears to be attracting support for the Conservatives ahead of a June election, according to a YouGov poll published in The Times newspaper on Friday. The poll also showed Theresa May’s Conservatives due to win more seats in Scotland in the…
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EP to lift Marine Le Pen immunity
The European Parliament (EP) has begun the process of lifting immunity for MEP Marine Le Pen, the French Presidential candidate. EP has confirmed that the total sum of an alleged fraud amounts to €5 million in EU expenses for none-EU activities, carried out in France. Marine Le Pen took break from the leadership of the…
Marine Le Pen stepped down as a leader of Front National
In a message to her supporters Marine Le Pen informed them, that she will ‘take vacation’ from leading the Front National party, and will stay only the candidate for the presidency of France. Taking into consideration the careful wording ‘take vacation’, one might conclude it is a temperate solution for the coming two weeks until…
Defeated candidates call voters to support Macron
DEPECHE: The candidate of the Socialist party at power – Benoit Hamon (6,2%) acknowledged his defeat and called his voters to support the centrist Emmanuel Macron, to struggle against far right candidate Marine Le Pen (21,7%). ‘The Left is not dead’, – said Hamon, addressing his saddened militants. He is convinced that the values of…
President Tusk in Warsaw as a witness
European Council President Donald Tusk is due to testify in Warsaw on Wednesday, 19.04.2017, as a witness in an investigation into military intelligence. Tusk’s supporters claim it is an attempt by Poland’s right-wing government to discredit Tusk, and force him to abandon his seat in the EU institution. Tusk is the ex-leader of Poland’s largest…
May calls for early elections
British Prime Minister Theresa May called on Tuesday, 18.04.2017, for an early election on June 8, motivating with a needed to strengthen her hand in Brexit talks with the European Union by shoring up support for PM’s departure from EU plan. UK PM @theresa_may announces snap general electionhttps://t.co/JRjQmfCY6Z pic.twitter.com/yZbVqY70ng — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April…
Erdogan receives congratulations
World leaders congratulated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the Yes victory in Sunday’s historic referendum, reports the Anadolu news agency. As of 11.30 p.m. local time (2030GMT), unofficial results showed the Yes camp on 51.41 percent while the No had 48.59 percent. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was the first leader to congratulate Erdogan in a…
EU on referendum in Turkey
“We take note of the reported results of the referendum in Turkey on the amendments to the Constitution, adopted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 21 January 2017”, – says the common statement of President Juncker, Vice-President Mogherini and Commissioner Hahn on the referendum in Turkey “We are awaiting the assessment of the OSCE/ODIHR International Observation Mission,…
Tillerson’ voyage to Moscow
Anna van Densky OPINION It does not make much sense to discuss the possible outcome of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s (pictured) first visit to Moscow, because the new US administration was not given an opportunity to work out their political strategy, or even modify the concept of the Obama’s administration. From the moment of the…
EU sceptic about new anti-Russian measures
Britain and America have failed to win immediate support from European allies for new sanctions on Russia following the chemical weapons attack in Syria. Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, propelled the idea a G7 meeting of foreign ministers of punitive measures against Moscow, but could not win the backing he expected from Germany, Italy, and some…
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