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Showing posts with label European Parliament. Show all posts
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Monday, May 27, 2019

Salvini Declares 'NEW Europe is Born' Amid Right-Wing Surge in EU Elections

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This month's EU parliamentary elections were characterised by significant gains for Europe's right-wing parties, as the two centrist parties that had dominated the EU for decades ceded their overwhelming majority in the legislature.
The resounding success claimed by the League party in Italy, the National Rally party in France and the Brexit Party in the UK in the just-held elections to the European Parliament are a sign of changes in Europe and mark the beginning of a “new European Renaissance”, said Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister, interior minister and leader of the League Party at Lega's headquarters in Milan.
“A new Europe is born. I am proud that the League is participating in this new European renaissance,” Salvini said after exit polls predicted his party had won 27-31 percent of votes.


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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Europe Is Burning

 
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
There will be elections for the European Parliament on May 23-26 2019. They will likely change the face of Europe more than anything has done since the EU was founded. That is not some wild prediction. Many European countries have held elections since the last European elections in 2014, and just about all had outcomes that shook up domestic political ratios.

In most cases, countries went from traditional parties to newly founded ones. France erased the Socialists and center-right in 2017, and the final round of the presidential elections was between Marine Le Pen’s Front National and Emmanuel Macron’s brand-new En Marche. Macron won sort of by default, because France as a country would never have voted for Le Pen.
In Italy, M5S and Lega have taken over. In Germany, Merkel’s CDU/CSU coalition lost bigly though it remained the biggest party, but Angela lost her ‘socialist’ SPD partner which gave up so much it didn’t want to be in government anymore. In Spain, Mariano Rajoy’s center right lost enough to cede power to the Socialists who came up tops because they played a smart game, not because the Spanish wanted it to rule.
We don’t have to go through all 27/28 different countries to establish that there are almost tectonic shifts happening all over, away from traditional parties and towards whoever showed up without insanely extreme views. And if you think this move is now completed, you may want to think again.

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

European Parliament Votes in Favor of Resolution to Freeze Turkey's Accession



© Photo: PixabayPolitics14:21 24.11.2016(updated 15:28 24.11.2016) Get short URL6954130The European Parliament has voted on Thursday in favor of a non-binding resolution on freezing Turkey's EU accession talks.The 751-member legislative body voted 479 in favor and 37 against the non-binding resolution in a roll-call broadcast on the EP's audiovisual service. A total of 107 EU lawmakers abstained. © Flickr/ U.S. Naval Forces Greek Defense Minister Warns Ankara Against Revision of Lausanne TreatyEU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on November 4 that the EU was "gravely concerned" by the crackdown in Turkey after the July coup attempt. European politicians are dissatisfied with renewed attempts to reinstate the death penalty in Turkey, as well as by closures of media outlets, arrests of journalists and Kurdish opposition leaders that have rocked the country after a military faction made an unsuccessful bid to overthrow the Turkish president on July 15-16. Turkey signed an association agreement with the then-European Community in 1963, and submitted a membership application in 1987. Talks about Ankara's membership of the European Union began in 2005. The negotiations on Turkish EU membership have been repeatedly suspended due to the Cyprus dispute and Turkey's record of denying press freedom, among other obstacles. In Thursday’s resolution, European Parliament lawmakers condemned "disproportionate repressive measures" taken by the government in the aftermath of the abortive coup, claiming they violated "basic rights and freedoms protected by the Turkish Constitution." The temporary halt of the EU’s accession talks with Turkey means no new negotiating chapters will be opened, although lawmakers underscored that Ankara remained the union’s important partner. They vowed to review their position once restrictive measures were lifted. © REUTERS/ Baz RatnerErdogan’s Territorial Claims to Greece are an 'Attempt to Manipulate Domestic Agenda'The resolution's text was augmented with a phrase that the European Parliament was worried by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's critical statement on the Lausanne Treaty. The 1923 treaty was signed following World War I and replaced the Treaty of Sevres, which stipulated the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The Lausanne Treaty defined the boundaries of the modern state of Turkey and included provisions under which Ankara lost control over vast territories, which are now parts of Syria, Greece, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. In September, Erdogan criticized the Lausanne Treaty saying it was forced on Turkey by its opponents. He added that Turkey ceded islands with Turkish sanctuaries and mosques to Greece under the treaty.

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