The leader of the European Union’s main centre-right political group has proclaimed a “civic Europe” as preliminary results suggest a strong showing for conservative candidates in European Parliament elections on Sunday. In Europe, the “left-liberal” camp had been voted out, said European People’s Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber in Munich. “We will implement the issues […]
Hackers have carried out a major attack on Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union party, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday. The ministry did not provide further information about the extent or nature of the attack, which is being investigated by Germany’s domestic security service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. “However, the nature […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) was poised to win the most votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election, but well short of a full majority, three exit polls showed, putting the AD in the 27.6%-33% range, just ahead of the incumbent Socialists. The polls published by the three main television channels SIC, RTP and […]
Voters in Portugal went to the polls Sunday in an early election that could see the country join a shift to the right across Europe after eight years of Socialist rule. Final opinion polls published Friday put the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party (PS) but short of an outright majority […]
Ex-prime minister Alexander Stubb is projected to win Finland’s presidential election run-off on Sunday against former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto. Finnish public broadcaster YLE projected that centre-right candidate Mr Stubb, of the conservative National Coalition Party, wins the Finnish presidency with 51.4% of the votes, while independent candidate Mr Haavisto from the green left will […]