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Romania’s Socialists and a hard-right party seek to topple the center-right prime minister

Romania’s Social Democratic Party and the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians have submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan

The Independent UK

Make places like Somerset take more migrants, Danish minister tells UK

Denmark’s employment minister warns that centrist parties need to get a grip on immigration

The Independent UK

Former labour union leader Inga Ruginienė becomes Lithuania's new prime minister

Ruginienė, a former head of Lithuania’s labour union confederation, joined the centre-left Social Democratic Party just before a general election last year.

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Romania election 2025: Results, who’s standing and what’s at stake?

It’s the country’s second poll in less than a year after a previous election was anulled.

Al Jazeera

OPINION - Nigel Farage, Mike Amesbury and the domino effect: how Runcorn could change British politics

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…

Evening Standard

Romania’s governing party set to win election despite far-right resurgence

Left-leaning Social Democratic Party to hold parliament, but Alliance for Uniting Romanians makes big gains.

Al Jazeera

Romania election: what next after ultranationalist’s shock first-round victory?

Upset in first round of presidential ballot as frontrunners knocked out and pro-Russian Călin Georgescu comes first

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Lithuanian election winner promises to bolster defence to counter Russia threat

Social Democrat leader says spending should be no less than party’s election manifesto pledge of 3.5% of GDP

The Guardian - UK

Lithuania's Centre Left Starts Coalition Talks After Election Win

Lithuania's centre-left party said on Monday it would start forming a new coalition after winning the election, as its leader Vilija Blinkeviciute has cast doubts on whether she would lead the government.

International Business Times

Social Democrats win round 1 of Lithuania's election and aim to oust the conservative leader

The opposition Social Democratic Party has emerged as the leader after the first round of national elections in Lithuania and says it will start negotiations to form a new government with left-leaning parties

The Independent UK

Closed and insular: On Portugal’s parliamentary election results

The parliamentary election results in Portugal suggest that the country cannot remain an island when far-right populist parties are on the rise elsewhere in Europe

The Hindu

Surge for far-right party in Portugal – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Portugal's Election: Corruption, Housing Crisis, Low Pay Concerns

Portugal's election highlights corruption, housing crisis, and low wages as key issues. Leading candidates from major parties and a rising populist party a...

Top News

Rightwing SVP expected to make gains in Swiss federal elections

Swiss People’s party believes its campaign focus on immigration and cost of living will increase its lead

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Evening Standard

Polls open in triple by-election contest

Rishi Sunak had braced MPs at a meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers on the eve of the polls

Leeds Live

Every candidate standing in the Leeds City Council elections 2023

There are 33 seats up for grabs at the elections this year

Leeds Live

SDP blasts Leeds' 'war on cars’ and calls for ‘back to basics’ approach

Social Democratic Party councillor Wayne Dixon oversees the party in Leeds

The Conversation

Finland's election: what happened to Sanna Marin and what to expect next

The results of Finland’s parliamentary elections signal a tumultuous period ahead. This was to a certain degree foreseen by pre-election polls, which indicated that prime minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) was about to lose to the opposition conservative National Coalition Party (Kok), led by Petteri Orpo.

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Outgoing Finnish leader Marin steps down as party leader

Finland's outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her Social Democratic Party at the next party congress in the autumn

Reuters

Finland's Marin steps down as party leader

Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin is stepping down as leader of the Social Democratic party, she said on Wednesday, adding she will serve as a regular lawmaker in the newly elected parliament from next week.

Reuters

Finnish centre-right eyes coalition talks as defeated Marin considers future

Outgoing Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was left to consider her future after she conceded defeat in a tight parliamentary election on Sunday that handed her centre-right rival Petteri Orpo the right to try and form a coalition.

Reuters

Factbox-Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin

Here is a profile of Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin, whose left-wing Social Democrats lost a parliamentary election on Sunday, although they might still join the next coalition with election winner the National Coalition Party.

France 24

Denmark gets a new government, six weeks after elections

Denmark has a new government after weeks of negotiations that will bring together a left-right political alliance between the Moderates, the Social Democrats and the Liberals, prime minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesda

Al Jazeera

Hijab ban proposal sparks debate, protests in Denmark

A new recommendation to ban Muslim headscarves in Danish elementary schools has been met with a backlash in Denmark.

ABC News

Sanna Marin has defied Vladimir Putin in joining NATO. It could be Finland's 'most important moment'

Russia's warnings to not join NATO have done little to dampen the resolve of Finland's Prime Minister, Sanna Marin. At just 36, the world's youngest leader has pulled off one of the "most important moments of Finnish history".

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