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Vor einem Tag · Belgium has compulsory voting and thus maintains one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world. The King (currently Philippe) is the head of state, though with limited prerogatives. He appoints ministers, including a Prime Minister, that have the confidence of the Chamber of Representatives to form the federal government. The Council ...
Vor 7 Stunden · BRUSSELS — French cognac makers warned Thursday that they could be just days away from becoming the innocent victims of an escalating trade conflict between the European Union and China. “We feel like we are being held hostage to things that have absolutely nothing to do with us and that we can ...
Vor 7 Stunden · May 23, 2024 8:18 pm CET. By Ellen Boonen. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has backed a demand from Polish and Greek Prime ministers Donald Tusk and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to create an EU-funded air defense shield. "The current fragmented landscape is simply not up to today's needs and requirements," Tusk and Mitsotakis argued ...
Vor 8 Stunden · The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that authorities in Georgia acted properly in 2014 when bringing criminal charges for abuse of power and complicity in criminal battery against former president Mikheil Saakashvili. The ECHR stated that “the authorities’ honest desire was to bring the applicant to justice for his wrongdoing and ...
Vor 11 Stunden · May 23, 2024 4:07 pm CET. By Antoaneta Roussi. Assistants at the European Parliament are in an uproar about a recent data breach of thousands of personal records — and they want answers from the chamber’s top brass. Parliament notified up to 9,000 staffers earlier this month that it had suffered a data breach of its online recruitment ...
Vor einem Tag · In fact, the monarchs of the Netherlands rarely make any executive decisions at all and practically never speak in public on any subject other than to read a statement prepared by the Prime Minister (since an unfortunate off-the-cuff remark could get a minister into trouble). The practical consequence of this limit on the power of the monarch is that the monarch never makes a decision on his ...
Vor einem Tag · According to the Washington Post, in December 2009, after US President Barack Obama announced he would deploy 30,000 more U.S. soldiers, and that Washington wants others to follow suit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted with the message that Turkey would not contribute additional troops to Afghanistan.
