Le Pen: I will not run for president with an ankle bracelet
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said she will not run for president if a court orders her to wear a monitoring…
Category: Politics
Parliamentary elections are approaching in Hungary; what is Orbán doing and what is his rival thinking?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided that a fight with Brussels is exactly what he needs to shore up his faltering election…
Nils Ušakovs leaves the board of the Saskaņa party
Member of the European Parliament Nils Ušakovs (S) has stepped down from the board of the party Saskaņa. “I would like to wish…
Iceland eyes resuming EU accession talks
Two people familiar with the matter said Iceland is considering holding a vote to reopen EU accession talks as soon as August, Politico…
The President of Latvia warns of a possible weakening of judicial independence
The President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, has returned the Law on Special Pensions for Judges and Prosecutors to the Saeima for reconsideration. In…
BNN IN FOCUS | Rajevskis: Latvia must not “sleep through” the nuclear weapons debate
If necessary, Estonia could deploy allied nuclear weapons on its territory, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna stated this week. Poland has also turned…
Lithuanian activist’s fake calls – a way to detect illegal funding
Lithuanian communications specialist Karolis Žukauskas has indicated that he suspects that supporters of the Nemunas Dawn party are involved in an illegal financing…
Politician: If the government falls, Latvia would be led by a technical government
A new government cannot be formed before the next Saeima elections, and if it were possible, it would have already been done, said…
BNN IN FOCUS | Is Latvia’s Government collapsing or just arguing loudly? A political scientist explains
At first glance, it may appear that due to disagreements between two coalition partners — Progresīvie (The Progressives) and Zaļo un Zemnieku savienība…
