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Italy’s energetic Premier Matteo Renzi has staked his reputation at home and abroad on an ambitious reform agenda, but he may have underestimated how...
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German Social-Democrat Martin Schulz was elected on Tuesday to head the European Parliament in the first session since elections in May. Schulz, outgoing president...
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Iraq’s newly-elected parliament opened its first session on Tuesday to begin forming a new government following April 30 elections. Premier Nuri al-Maliki’s bloc won...
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Ukraine’s new Western-backed president is due on Thursday to submit constitutional changes expanding regional powers in the hope the measure will help calm a...
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After two failed attempts to appoint a new prime minister, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye announced Thursday her “agonised” decision to retain the incumbent...
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday survived a vote of confidence in his coalition amid a high-profile bugging scandal that has prompted calls...
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If Russian lawmakers have their way, smoking for women under 40 will soon be banned, advertisement for condoms and pregnancy tests will be banished...
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The main political groups in the European Parliament on Thursday backed the “democratic” right of Jean-Claude Juncker to be the next head of the...
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Spanish lawmakers approved on Wednesday the abdication of King Juan Carlos by a wide margin, paving the way for his son Felipe to take...
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German deputies probing US spying said Thursday they would seek to question fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden in Moscow within the next four...