Photo by Chris Boland on unsplash.com Some 111,384 Britons residing overseas have submitted their applications to vote in the UK election, according to the Electoral Commission. This covers the period since the announcement of the UK General Election on 22 May, and until the deadline to register to vote passed (18 June). The largest number…
This year’s UK general election has at least one highly unusual candidate running for office….. “AI Steve.” If elected, it would be the world’s first elected AI politician. “SmarterUK” is a new AI-powered political party in Britain which has put forward AI Steve as a candidate to fight in next week’s general election to be…
Since 2020, when the UK left the European Union, British public opinion has moved in only one direction. More and more British voters are coming to realise that Brexit was a major error. The promises of its advocates remain undelivered and will continue remain undelivered in any foreseeable future, writes Brendan Donnelly. This radical shift…
The growing popularity of Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs in Europe is causing mixed feelings in political circles. His most recent appearance was in Rome, 20 June. He presented his views to a group of Italian MPs and a group of observers on the war in Ukriane at a conference entitled “The European and Italian…
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash Campaign groups New Europeans UK and Unlock Democracy have teamed up with the British Overseas Voters Forum for an investigation into how well the postal system will perform for Britons abroad voting in the UK General Election on 4 July. It comes after the head of the British Overseas Voters Forum, Bruce…
Photo by Phil Scroggs on Unsplash One in three residents in Brussels are not Belgian and, in some areas of the city, it is almost half. But up to 285,000 in Brussels could vote in the 2024 municipal elections which are important as they dictate how local policies are enforced in the coming years. Now a campaign has…
Veteran German MEP Manfred Weber has again been elected as leader of the biggest group in the EU parliament. Weber is a long serving German deputy from the CSU – Christlich Soziale Union – political party and a well known figure in EU circles. He was re-elected chairman of the EPP Group in the European…
Photo by Dawid Małecki on Unsplash The European Parliament elections with their low turn outs, unknown politicians, and use as a protest vote against incumbent governments have exploded into life with the decision of President Macron to dissolve the French Parliament, writes Denis MacShane. In effect he is holding a plebiscite asking the French people and indirectly the…
Photo by Pedro Lastra on Unsplash Gains by the far right in last week’s EU elections are “deeply concerning”, says former UK MEP Claude Moraes The far right held their positions in Italy and the Netherlands (with swings between far-right parties rather than to them). But they failed to make headway in other countries where they were predicted…
Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash The European Green Party says it is “outraged” by the reported agreement between Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National and Les Républicains in France. The last 72 hours in French politics have been described as the “wildest” of a lifetime. It all started with the outcome of the EU elections at the weekend…
