Admit it Labour's triple election winner would have known how to handle the threat from the Ukip leader What would Tony Blair do about the threat posed by Nigel Farage, Ukip's pub quiz champion who always sticks to his special subject? "Who cares?" is the usual answer from some grander pundits on both left and right who share an interest in denigrating Labour's triple election winner. A pity...
Soraya Post and the other feminist candidates were compelled to run after tiring of women's rights and equality being shunned This weekend it looks likely that the first MEP to represent a feminist party will be elected to the European parliament Soraya Post of the Swedish Feminist Initiative. The elections are also the first time that French candidates who are specifically feminist have stood for...
In the 2015 general election the disaffected should get a none-of-the-above box to tick. They are the biggest demographic I do hope you're sitting down, because as political slogans go, the following is likely to excite you. So hold on to your hats, and here goes: we need a new kind of apathy. With just a year to go before the general election, I can think of no single more achievable boost to our...
Geert Wilders Freedom Party lost almost five percent of its votes compared to 2009 while the pro-EU D66 emerged at the top, according to exit polls for the EU vote in the Netherlands. ...
It has become more acceptable to be openly racist, in particular against visible minorities such as people of African descent and the Roma. ...
Erasmus isn't about studying, it's about learning, say former students of the exchange programme. ...
The southern US state of Tennessee has decided to reintroduce the electric chair in response to a European-led boycott of lethal serum sales for executions. The decision was signed into law on Thursday, allowing Tennessee to electrocute people sentenced to death if prisons are unable to purchase lethal injections. ...
German President Joachim Gauck Thursday appealed for more tolerance towards immigrants, with numbers at a 20-year high. "Our country needs immigration. We won't lose ourselves if we accept variety," he said in Berlin. Gauck is left-leaning, while Chancellor Merkel's centre-right coalition is pushing for a more restrictive immigration policy. ...
Three opinion polls in Greece out Thursday place the left-wing Syriza party ahead in the race for seats in the local government and European elections, reports AP. The polls give Syriza a lead of between 2.5% to 3.2% points over the conservative New Democracy party, which heads Greece's coalition government. ...
Sweden's upstart feminist party is close to winning a first parliamentary seat at Sunday's European Parliament elections, according to Friday's DN/Ipsos poll. The Social Democrats will come first (24.9%), followed by PM Reinfeldt's conservative party (16.5%) and the Greens (13.8%). The far-right Sweden Democrats is set for one MEP . ...
German net migration rose to 437,000 people in 2013, the highest since 1993, Germany's Statistics Office announced on Thursday. Immigration from Italy recorded the strongest rise (52%), while most migrants came from Poland, 72,000 people. Migration from Greece fell by 9%. ...
Turnout could well be higher than the 34.7 percent who voted in 2009, but is unlikely to exceed the UK EU elections high of 38.4 percent in 2004. ...
Finland's state defence ministry on Wednesday said it had sent three jet fighters over the Gulf of Finland after two Russian aircraft violated its airspace, reports The Independent. "An airspace violation has been confirmed off the coast near Porvoo," said the ministry. The incident occurred on Tuesday. ...
Separatists killed 16 Ukrainian soldiers on Thursday, as Ukraine prepares to elect the man or woman who will try to end de facto Russian rule. ...
Following Thursday's British and Dutch EP elections, Ireland and the Czech Republic vote today, Friday. The Czechs can also vote tomorrow, along with the Latvians, Maltese and Slovakians, while the 21 remaining EU countries vote on Sunday. Results will be announced Sunday evening when the last Italian polling station closes. ...
In an article earlier this week by EUobserver, four top candidates for the next president of the European Commission – Jean-Claude Juncker, Ska Keller, Martin Schulz and Guy Verhofstadt, expressed their support for an EU strategy on LGBTI human rights. ...
The EU's four-year-old ban on seal fur will remain in place after the World Trade Organisation rejected an appeal by Canada and Norway. ...
Over 80% of the 5,026 EP election observers registered with the State Election Commission in Croatia are from right-wing parties, the bulk of them from the opposition coalition HDZ. The ruling SPD coalition, the liberal and the Green parties, have just 606 registered observers. The remaining 335 are from ngos. ...
EU Commission candidate Martin Schulz's party has run an ad in Germany's largest newspaper saying a vote for Schulz is the only way to ensure a German head of the EU executive. ...
EU leaders will meet in Brussels Tuesday to discuss the outcome of the EU and Ukrainian elections, kicking off the nomination process of the next European Commission chief. ...