The leftist-led coalition government in Germany collapsed on Wednesday evening over budget disagreements and the return of Donald Trump, culminating in Finance Minister Christian Lindner being dismissed and his Free Democrats chucked out of the coalition.
A migrant woman who had been declared “mum of the year” by a magazine in 2022 has admitted to assaulting a Ukrainian woman.
The populist Finns Party has overtaken Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats in polls as the parties that form the Finnish coalition government fall behind both populists and conservatives.
Chancellor Scholz wants to streamline citizenship but a coalition partner points to the promise to “effectively reduce irregular migration”.
Voters in Germany’s main financial center, Frankfurt, have removed the city’s mayor who is on trial in a corruption case.
A poll has suggested as many as 83 per cent of Austrians believe that all of the country’s politicians are corrupt.
Social Democrats, an otherwise left-wing party known for their anti-mass migration stance, scored their largest election victory since 2001.
The snap election is over the culling of the country’s entire captive mink population during the pandemic to, allegedly, protect humans.
A right-populist government could rule Sweden, but moderate parties refusing to cooperate with the Sweden Democrats could scupper the plan.
Sweden’s leftist government has proposed lowering the age limit for people legally changing gender from 18 to 16 as part of a new gender recognition law.
German police have launched an investigation into allegations by several women who claimed to have been drugged at a summer party of Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) in Berlin last week. The Berlin criminal police began an investigation into the
A website aimed at tracking the funding of NGOs in Ireland has been shuttered after the Irish government cut the project’s principal source of public funding.
Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.
Sweden’s first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who resigned last week after barely eight hours, has been re-elected.
Swedens first ever female Prime Minister resigned the same day she was selected after the government lost a key budget vote in the Riksdag.
Today’s new Swedish Prime Minister lost her first major vote just hours after her appointment, failing to pass her governments budget.
The Swedish parliament has confirmed left-wing Magdalena Andersson as the first female PM, but trouble is already on the horizon.
The female-led largely millennial government of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has sunk to a new polling low this week, with barely half of the country believing the government is doing a good job.
Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new govt.
The likely kingmakers from Germany’s election said they will hold talks on a possible new govt under the leadership of the Social Democrats.
The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks.
Angela Merkel’s party has suffered its worst-ever election results in Germany’s federal elections, according to preliminary results.
Exit polls released after polls closed in the German Federal election revealed a neck-and-neck race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with their Bavarian allies and the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD).
German voters are heading to the polls in what could be a major political shift in Germany and Europe as the era of Angela Merkel’s reign as Chancellor ends after nearly 16 years in power.
BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.
Greek police have not yet commented on whether or not they believe Abedi Elmi’s passports were meant to help facilitate illegal migration.
STOCKHOLM (AP) – Stefan Lofven, Sweden’s Social Democratic prime minister since 2014, said Sunday that he will step down as head of government and the party in November.
“A snap election is not what is best for Sweden,” Lofven said “The govt will continue to govern the country for now [caretakers].”
Parliament passed a motion of non-confidence in the left-led government, giving PM Löfven the choice to resign or call fresh elections.
Sweden’s Left Party has threatened to bring down the Social Democrat-led government in a confidence vote expected as early as Monday.
The centre-right came top in Sunday´s local election, ahead of Sanna Marin´s Social Democrats in the first election for Finland’s new PM.
Opposition politicians have questioned whether Berlin’s Social Democrat (SPD) Mayor Michael Müller abused his power after he triggered a police operation and search of the home of a woman who had criticised him on social media in actions later deemed unlawful.
The left-wing candidate to replace Angela Merkel when she steps down as chancellor of Germany has said he backs the formation of an EU army.
A Swedish politician, allegedly a member of the ruling Social Democrats, was caught accidentally showing pornography to colleagues during a remote meeting in the city of Uppsala. The incident occurred during a remote board meeting of the local city government
Copenhagen´s lord mayor is stepping down after 11 years following admissions that he sexually harassed women during social gatherings.
Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats saw their worst-ever polling result in a new poll by Ipsos this week, as they remain behind the populist Sweden Democrats.
A former left-wing Social Democrat politician in the province of Småland has been arrested following media allegations that he had boasted about helping to smuggle migrants into Sweden.
Finland’s new leftist coalition government has appointed a women-majority cabinet, with women outnumbering men nearly two-to-one.
Members of the new European Commission have been slammed for singing the far-left Marxist song “Bella Ciao” in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
German Social Democrats (SPD) member Andrea Nahles has quit her position as leader of her party following a disastrous showing at the European elections, with the party moving to appoint three people to replace her.
