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“They want me like this, without fangs.” Ángel Gabilondo, the man Ciudadanos prevented from governing Madrid with the PSOE in 2019, explained with that metaphor why his slow style had a pull among voters. Two years later, in 2021, with the Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) phenomenon in full swing, Juan Lobato, her replacement as regional candidate, offered the opposite recipe: “We have to have a much higher forcefulness.” With the two now gone from the political front line, the contrast of their strategies, which also ended up being convergent in moderation, reflects the constant changes of script in the Madrid…

Feminists manage to have their amendments incorporated into the party’s new ideology Read The PSOE will expel militants who resort to prostitution and will eliminate the Q and the + from their references to the LGTBI group

The FDP is in crisis almost three months before the federal election. Privately, party leader Christian Lindner can be happy: he and his wife Franca are expecting their first child together. The baby is due to be born in spring.FDP leader Christian Lindner is currently in a crisis professionally – but things couldn’t be going better for him privately. „Bild“ and the German Press Agency learned from the couple’s confidants that Lindner (45) and his wife, the journalist Franca Lehfeldt (35), are expecting their first child together. Lindner himself did not want to comment on this when asked.According to the…

The doctor and microbiologist Peter Piot dedicated a large part of his professional life to combating HIV. Here he talks about current challenges – and his hope that the disease could one day be curable. Peter Piot on World AIDS Day: “Today many people think: HIV is over. That’s a big problem.”

US President-elect Donald Trump said Jared Kushner’s father, his pick for US ambassador to France, was “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Trump picks his son-in-law's father, real estate mogul Charles Kushner, as France envoy

Georgians protesting the government’s decision to delay European Union membership talks clashed with security forces outside parliament in the capital Tbilisi on Saturday evening.

Florence — «There is an issue of controls and security to be strengthened on the structures that welcome tourists, also by exploiting artificial intelligence as we are doing. But above all we need a national law that allows Municipalities to regulate short-term rentals.” Sara Funaro: “The police are not enough: let’s track down Bnb squatters with artificial intelligence” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/01/news/affitti_brevi_bnb_funaro_firenze_airbnb-423778269/?rss

Romanians are casting ballots in a parliamentary election on Sunday sandwiched between a turbulent two-round presidential race. The first round of the presidential contest plunged the European Union and Nato member country into unprecedented turmoil following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference.

Polling stations have opened in Romania, where millions are casting their ballots in a crucial parliamentary election. The vote comes just one week after a highly controversial first round of the presidential race, which saw relatively unknown populist candidate Călin Georgescu win 23% of the vote. Sunday’s parliamentary race is the most important vote in Romania, as it determines the country’s new government and prime minister. There are concerns however that it may be overshadowed by the chaos that ensued from last week’s presidential vote. While the president has significant decision-making powers in Romania, particularly in areas such as national…

In a video message addressed to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Conference, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, underscored the European Union’s steadfast commitment to support Ukraine “in all respects, and for as long as it takes.”