Anti-smoking campaigners have accused the Coalition of secretly giving tobacco giants access to a parliamentary inquiry, a move they say undermines more than 15 years of precedent to protect public health. On Monday, representatives from tobacco company Philip Morris appeared before a Senate committee considering the illegal tobacco trade in Australia. Chaired by South Australian…
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Shorouk Express Lithuania’s Social Democrats signed a coalition government deal on Monday with the populist Dawn of Nemunas and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, along with their controversial allies, replacing the Democrats “For Lithuania” party. The Farmers and Greens enter the new government alongside their troublesome partners, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania–Christian…
Shorouk Express Sanseito ran an anti-immigration campaign under a “Japanese First” slogan. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told a press conference that he was “aware of [his] responsibility,” but said he planned to stay on as head of government. Ishiba is in talks with Washington in an attempt to avoid a 25 percent U.S. tariff scheduled…
Shorouk Express Defending Italy’s citizenship laws as “excellent and also very inclusive,” Meloni said on June 5 that she was “completely against” the proposed changes. Italian public media and government politicians broadly ignored the referendum, with junior Meloni coalition member Forza Italia posting a picture on X of a swimming pool, sandals and sunglasses, saying…
Shorouk Express The package contains no unexpected measures but brings back 62 highlights from the coalition agreement — which the government wants to have on track before the mid-July parliamentary summer break. This was the first coalition committee meeting between Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union party and Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil’s Social Democrats, and lasted just a…
Shorouk Express While the coalition agreement includes such a measure, Merz stressed that all commitments are conditional on the funding available, referring to a clause in the 144-page coalition agreement stating that every policy — from tax relief to infrastructure spending — must be financially viable before it can be implemented. That is stirring confusion…
Shorouk Express “We want independence, but we all have very different definitions of what independence is,” editor-in-chief of Greenland’s main newspaper Sermitsiaq, Masaana Egede, told POLITICO before the election. Whether Greenland can economically go it alone, however, is the big question. The Arctic island is home to one of the world’s largest deposits of uranium…
Shorouk Express FLENSBURG, Germany — Friedrich Merz is Germany’s likely next chancellor, but how he will form a coalition government is looking increasingly uncertain. At a campaign event on Friday in the northern German city of Flensburg, Greens chancellor candidate Robert Habeck cast doubt on the possibility of a coalition between his party and Merz’s…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies took down two hacking forums that had more than 10 million users, according to Europol, one of the agencies involved in the operation. On Thursday, Europol and Germany’s police the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) announced the seizures of Cracked and Nulled. The BKA called them “the world’s two largest trading…
