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The European Parliament elects anti-abortion MEP as president

  • Jon Rodríguez Forrest Jon Rodríguez Forrest
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Two decades after the European Parliament had its last woman as a president, Roberta Metsola (EPP, Malta) has been elected to the position with an absolute majority of 458 votes in the first round. Metsola’s...

The fall of ‘Dracula politics’ in Romania

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
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On December 6, Romanians elected their members of parliament. The elections were held despite the fact that there were record numbers of Covid cases during the last month with more than 5,500 cases on the...

What is the situation of the Czech left after the regional elections?

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This article is commentary by transform! europe's Board member Jiří Málek. It was originally published on 15 October 2020. The political turning point in left-wing strength within the Czech Republic was between 2016 and 2019,...

Young Polish social-democrats: not radical enough to succeed?

  • Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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Three years ago, a new political party called Razem (Together) stunned public opinion in Poland. A circle of young people, most, but not all of them previously active in the Young Socialists group, not only...
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