The lower house of Poland's parliament, or Sejm, filled with new lawmakers, and foreign diplomats as guests, during the gala inauguration of a new four-year term of the national parliamentin Warsaw, Poland, on Nov 12, 2019. (PHOTO / AP) WARSAW – Polish lawmakers gave final approval to a key judicial reform bill intended to unblock […]
French leftist party La France Insoumise Euro Deputy Manon Aubry uses her mobile phone as she takes part in a vote on a request for waiver of the immunity of MPs Marc Tarabella of Belgium and Italian Andrea Cozzolino's as part of a probe into alleged bribery by Qatar and Morocco during a session at […]
A handout picture provided by the press service of Tunisian presidency shows President Kais Saied casting his ballot at a polling station in the Ennasr district near Tunis on Dec 17, 2022, during the parliamentary election. (TUNISIAN PRESIDENCY PRESS SERVICE / HO / AFP) TUNIS – Tunisia's president on Monday blamed ultra-low turnout for parliamentary […]
In this handout photo provided by The State Duma, The Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation, Speaker of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin attends a session of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Nov 24, 2022. (PHOTO / THE STATE DUMA, […]
This handout picture released by the Ukraine Presidency press service on Feb 28, 2022 shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (center), Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (right) and Ukraine's Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk attend a signing of the application for membership in the European Union. (UKRAINE PRESIDENCY / AFP) KYIV – The Ukrainian parliament […]
In this handout photograph taken and released by European Parliament on Dec 7, 2022, Greek politician and European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili speaks during the European Book Prize award ceremony in Brussels. (ERIC VIDAL / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / AFP) STRASBOURG – The European Parliament stripped Greek lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post on […]
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol (unseen) give a press conference on REPowerEU: outlook on EU gas supply in 2023, at the European Council Building in Brussels, on Dec 21, 2022. (JOHN THYS / AFP) BRUSSELS – European Commission President Ursula von […]
A woman walks near the entrance of the European Parliament in Brussels on Dec 9, 2022. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) BRUSSELS – A Belgian judge charged four people on Sunday over allegedly receiving money and gifts from a Gulf state to influence decisions in the European Parliament, accusations that have caused consternation in Brussels. Prosecutors […]
A medical worker runs past a burning car after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 10, 2022 after Russian missiles rained down on cities across Ukraine. (ROMAN HRYTSYNA / AP) Russia slammed the European Parliament's resolution on Thursday, calling the resolution absurd. It also called the agency "a sponsor of idiocy". The European Union's […]
In this April 29, 2021 file photo, a coal-fired RWE power plant steams on a sunny day in Neurath, Germany. (MARTIN MEISSNER / AP) BRUSSELS – The European Union has agreed to a law that sets national targets to reduce overall carbon emissions by the end of the decade across sectors including agriculture, buildings and […]
Deputy Federal Secretary of the League party Lorenzo Fontana reacts after being elected as the new speaker of the lower House of Parliament, in Rome, Italy, Oct 14, 2022. (Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters) ROME – Lorenzo Fontana, a two-time minister from a party likely to be a junior member of the next Italian government coalition, […]
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks in Edinburgh on Dec 13, 2019. (ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) LONDON – The battle to hold a second Scottish independence referendum moves to Britain's top court next week when it hears arguments for allowing a secession vote in a year's time without approval […]
Residents line up to vote at the Oltepesi Primary School in Kajiado County, Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 9, 2022. (BEN CURTIS / AP) NAIROBI – Millions of Kenyans started to cast their ballots for a new president, parliament and local authorities on Tuesday, live footage on local television stations showed. Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and […]
North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski (C) delivers a speech during a press conference in the Government building in Skopje, on July 16, 2022. North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced on July 16, 2022 that Skopje had reached a compromise with Bulgaria in a long-running dispute, allowing them to start European Union membership talks. […]
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gives a press conference at Canazei Fire Brigade on July 4, 2022, one day after an ice avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others. (PIERRE TEYSSOT / TEYSSOT / AFP) ROME – The Italian head […]
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne speaks during a debate on a motion of censure filed by the New Popular Ecological and Social Union party at the French national assembly in Paris on July 11, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) PARIS – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Monday comfortably survived a motion of no-confidence brought […]
A photo of a TV screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking during televised address on June 22, 2022, in Paris. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France – France's business elite is grappling to live with a new, more hostile political order a month after far-right and hard-left parties robbed President Emmanuel Macron's government of […]
European lawmakers gather to vote at the European Parliament on July 6, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS / AP PHOTO) BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution to add the right to abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, condemning the recent US Supreme […]