Jens Spahn, leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, announced his resignation after a debate on surrogate motherhood, informing Chancellor Friedrich Merz and CSU leader Markus Söder of his decision. #LeihmutterDebatte #JensSpahn #CDUCSU
With a cross-party coalition of 101 parliamentarians and MEPs from 16 European countries we call on Denmark’s Fayard shipyard to stop maintaining Russian Arc7-LNG vessels. The Arc7 fleet is THE critical logistical bottleneck for Russia´s LNG business. Fayard is currently the last #StopFayard #LNG #RussiaSanctions #DK #RU
Am I dreaming, or did Hungary’s Prime Minister really defend a constitutional amendment that bars his political opponents from Parliament and unlawfully removes the President of the Republic by arguing that it enjoys the unanimous support of a foreign government? So which is it? https://t.co/IuYRz0BCaj #Hungary #PoliticalOppression #ConstitutionalCrisis #HU
The Berlin Senate's funding of €135,000 annually for a "Muslim Pastoral Care Telephone" has drawn criticism from the ruling CDU party. This follows a parliamentary inquiry revealing that the Senate Department for Health, headed by SPD politician Ina Czyborra, paid a total of #BerlinSenate #MuslimPastoralCare #CDU #DE
Montenegro keeps showing that the road to the EU becomes easier when a country pulls in the same direction. Today, Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum elected the two remaining judges of the Constitutional Court. This strengthens an institution that is #Montenegro #EUperspective #ConstitutionalCourt #ME
A video of Hungary’s Brussels-backed liberal authoritarian Prime Minister. After moving to exclude his political opponents from democratic competition, attempting to remove the President through legally dubious means, and threatening even his own Speaker of Parliament for https://t.co/Xcw1Hfyrh2 #Hungary #Authoritarianism #Politics #HU
My EFE story: The Lithuanian Parliament approves the new government of Social Democrat Mindaugas Sinkevičius https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/el-parlamento-lituano-aprueba-el-nuevo-gobierno-del-socialdem%c3%b3crata-mindaugas-sinkevi%c4%8dius/91746068
A dark day for Hungary. Today, Parliament is adopting constitutional amendments that unlawfully remove the sitting President of the Republic and ban sitting opposition MPs from running for re-election. The former Prime Minister had already been banned from running again. This https://t.co/izRcflUXqf #Hungary #ConstitutionalAmendments #PoliticalCrisis #HU
Europe has a payment sovereignty problem. Wero already solves it: built by European banks, live today, no state database. Instead, Parliament voted 416-169 for a digital euro with holding caps written into the law. Money that can be capped can be frozen. Caps today, conditions https://t.co/6eEpJ1fKOH #PaymentSovereignty #DigitalEuro #EuropeanBanks #EU #DE
I have stated it repeatedly in parliament: the Islamic Republic aims to export the Islamic Revolution to the rest of the world. 👇🏻 #IslamicRevolution #Iran #Politics #IR
Statement by Tibet Support Group in Estonian Parliament and the Members of Riigikogu on China’s Law on ‘Ethnic Unity and Progress’ https://t.co/Pl0mf2Ow6G #Tibet #HumanRights #EstonianParliament #EE #CN
Hugo de Jonge, former Minister of Health, stated during a parliamentary inquiry into COVID-19 measures that while strict measures such as lockdowns and visitation bans were inevitable to prevent overwhelming healthcare, they also came with significant societal costs, including increased mental health issues and loneliness for vulnerable individuals in their final days. #Corona #Volksgezondheid #HugoDeJonge
My former colleague in the European Parliament has been murdered. I will remember her as a fervent fighter for freedom and a proud representative of the British people. R.I.P. Ann Widdecombe. 🖤🇬🇧 #RIP #AnnWiddecombe #FreedomFighter #GB #EU
For the first time in its history, the European Parliament has initiated a procedure that could ultimately lead to the dissolution of a European political party. This sets a concerning precedent, raising fundamental questions about political pluralism and the right to hold and https://t.co/qznPfuHW9N #EuropeanParliament #PoliticalPluralism #EUPolitics #EU
The regulation on decrypting and monitoring online chats and messages — supposedly to protect kids online — just got quietly extended until 2028 through some straight-up procedural bullshit. Back in April the co-legislators (Council + European Parliament) had already rejected it. #PrivacyMatters #DigitalRights #ChildProtection #EU
The key point is that what has been slipped through the back door today, twisting Parliament's own rules, is one more step toward that Orwellian Europe represented by the AI Act, eIDAS 2.0 / the European Digital Identity Wallet, the Digital Euro, the Artificial Intelligence Act #OrwellianEurope #DigitalIdentity #AIAct #EU
"Procedural coup" is exactly the right term to describe what just happened in the European Parliament. Finding a sneaky loophole to get around the awkward fact that a measure does not have majority support in the Parliament. #ProceduralCoup #EuropeanParliament #MajoritySupport #EU
Massive crowd gathered today in 🇭🇺Budapest to resist against the unlawful dismissal of President Sulyok that could happen as early as next week. Since the parliamentary elections in April, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has tried to humiliate, threaten and intimidate the President https://t.co/s6ltsQQRgm #Budapest #Sulyok #Protest #HU
🇸🇪 Sweden Draws a Line: No Pride Parades in Preschools The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman (JO) has stated clearly: preschools should not organize Pride parades or other political demonstrations. Young children belong in play and learning. Not adult political activism. A #PrideParade #Childhood #Sweden #SE
