Can anything stop the rise of the French far-right leader Jordan Bardella? – POLITICO

In choosing Hayer and Bernard Guetta as the first and second candidates on Renaissance’s EU election list, the French president is making clear that agriculture and the war in Ukraine are top priorities. Feb 29 3 mins read Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s … Read more

How to vote in the EU election as a Brussels expat – POLITICO

I registered for the last EU election, do I need to register again? No. If you applied to be on the electoral roll in the past (for example, ahead of the 2019 EU election) and your application was approved, you are automatically registered as a voter for all European elections in the future. Can I … Read more

Why is it so hard to deliver a European health data deal? – POLITICO

It was supposed to be the final political negotiation to get a deal on a European health data sharing law over the line before the EU election. Instead, negotiators turned in at 5 a.m. Friday morning empty-handed, and by lunchtime, accusations were flying from tired attendees who sought to explain why they failed to reach … Read more

Von der Leyen’s German party still wants to kill EU combustion engine ban – POLITICO

“We want to abolish the ban on combustion engines, and preserve Germany’s cutting-edge combustion engine technology and develop it further in a technology-neutral way. Synthetic fuels play a central role in this,” the draft program reads.  In contrast, the Christian Democrats’ political family, the European People’s Party (EPP), decided to drop a similar call from … Read more

France moves to make abortion a constitutional right amid rollbacks in US and Europe

PARIS — France is set to become the first country to enshrine the freedom to have an abortion in its constitution — an effort by President Emmanuel Macron to send a strong message of support for reproductive rights and, at the same time, score political points at the expense of a resurgent far right. The … Read more

Former Belgian PM Sophie Wilmès enters EU election bid – POLITICO

Sophie Wilmès is running in the EU election and will lead the list of the francophone centrist party Mouvement Réformateur (MR). The decision was taken by the party during a meeting on Saturday in Brussels, Le Soir reported. Wilmès replaces European Council President Charles Michel, who announced his bid to run in the EU election … Read more