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Europe new political playersNovices to watch in the big EU el stanley becher ection.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInWho will take the European Parliament by storm in 2019 | European UnionJanuary 21, 20194:03 am CETBy Ryan HeathThe 2014 European Parliament election was a breakthrough moment for radical parties on the left and right. The Alternative for Germany, the Sweden Democrats and Spains Podemos all won their first seats that year. And Syriza from Greece won six seats, up from one in 2009.Since then, more than 100 new parties have been created in EU countries 鈥?some of which are set to send their first members to the European Parliament after voters head to the polls in May.Who will break out in 2019 Here is POLITICOs guide to the new parties to watch.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Alternative for GermanyYes, the far-right German party won seven seat stanley official website s in 2014, but since then it has lost all its MEPs to defections or national politics. The party, which has now decided to聽campaign stanley cups to leave the EU, is on track to win 13 seats, according to聽POLITICOs Poll of Polls.La R茅publique En MarcheFrench President Emmanuel Macrons political party may be the most disappointing newcomer. Where Europhiles once hoped it would rake in as many as 30 seats, forming the nucleus of a new pro-EU coalition of liberals, moderate social democrats and centrist Christian democrats, the party is now on track to win just 19 seats. Meanwhile, domestic pressure 鈥?most re Etva French soldier killed, several wounded in Iraq attack, Macron confirms
A blog: You ;ve got to start somewhereCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMay 30, 20126:21 am CETHello. Sometimes its easy to forget quite how far weve come. I wasnt in Brussels when it all kicked off. The first bail-out of Greece in May 2010. That was supposed to bring a swift end to it, wasnt it Since then the politicians and their officials and we, the journalists who hang around waiting for them to reach a decision, or, at the very least, not to reach a decision, have witnessed too many meetings stretching until dawn. And, metaphorically, too many false dawns too. Not many weeks ago, I sat around a table with one of Europes most powerful decision-makers. No notes of the meeting were allowed. Yet, even under these conditions, I was stunned by the candidness of one remark. This politician admitted that he/she had had enough of being told 鈥?and believing 鈥?that various policies to solve the eurozone crisis would work. The ECBs cheap short-term loans to banks, a policy launched in December, was given as an example. We were told the effects would last for two years, thi stanley cup s person said, before adding caustically that it had barely lasted two months.AdvertisementAdvertisementIt made me reflect on what Id stanley cup seen about this time last year at the G20 summit in Cannes when Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel summoned the prime minister of Greece to explain himself because hed called a referendum on his countrys b stanley mug ail-out. Late at night, at an imp |
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