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...See you in court: Meet Julia Przyłębska, top judge on Poland’s constitutional tribunal, who could help thwart premier Donald Tusk’s pro-EU agenda....
...This past weekend’s Munich Security Conference, traditionally a showpiece of transatlantic unity, was instead dominated by two non-attendees seeking to divide the west: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump....
...Gerb are members of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s EPP group, and their capture of the prime minister’s chair was set to give the EPP 13 of the EU’s 27 leaders for the June discussions...
...Plenković now faces a vote that will also help determine his fate at the European elections in June, in which his ruling party runs as a member of von der Leyen’s European People’s party (EPP)....
...Donald Tusk, Poland’s new prime minister, has said he would only lift the ban if he secured wider safeguards from Brussels....
...Despite being the EPP’s figurehead, she’s not on the ballot. Her campaign will begin on June 10 with the lobbying of leaders and MEPs....
...Ray Epps vs Fox News A Trump supporter who participated in the protests that led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6 2021, Ray Epps found himself unexpectedly in the crosshairs of Fox commentators...
...In Poland, he has said that EPP-affiliated parties should build “a firewall” against the ruling Eurosceptic PiS when Poles vote in the autumn, saying that Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party was the only...
...If Donald Tusk, the EPP candidate and former European Council president, can pull off a win it would repair the testy relationship between Warsaw and Brussels and possibly allow more progress on climate...
...But her centre-right EPP party is in pole position to retain the presidency, even if that means closer collaboration with Eurosceptic parties. And, for now, no one seems like a stronger EPP candidate....
...In Poland’s elections on October 15, there is also a significant chance that the liberal, centrist coalition of Donald Tusk will return to power....
...The Bavarian was thought to be a shoo-in to succeed Sassoli in 2022 but has announced he will instead opt to succeed Donald Tusk as chair of the EPP party that brings together Germany’s Christian Democrats...
...Donald Tusk, EPP chair, who has been a vocal Orban critic, welcomed the news. “Fidesz has left Christian Democracy. In truth, it left many years ago,” he tweeted....
...Orban has also become increasingly strident in attacks on the EPP’s leadership, accusing party chairman Donald Tusk of playing “political games”....
...Donald Tusk, chair of the EPP party at large, has so far suspended a decision on excluding Fidesz, promising to hold a vote on the matter when Covid-19 measures allow for physical meetings to take place....
...A campaign to unite “sovereigntists” parties ahead of the 2019 elections led by former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon came to nothing after Italy’s Lega, Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS), and Hungary’s...
...But Orban is no Andrei Sakharov or Lyudmila Alexeyeva, as he showed in his attack on the EPP....
...A spokesperson for the EPP could not be reached for comment....
...Donald Tusk announced he would step down to return to Polish politics and try to revive the fortunes of the opposition. Talks on his successor at the EPP will start in the autumn....
...Viktor Orban has stepped up his battle with the leadership of his own political grouping in the European parliament, accusing European People’s party president Donald Tusk of expressing unfounded concerns...
...Donald Trump is becoming a poster boy for Germany’s ultranationalists and neo-Nazis....
...The EPP has been in the process of suspending a Fidesz MEP....
...After the centre-right party decided on Monday to keep Fidesz suspended for the indefinite future, Donald Tusk told the EPP’s political assembly that he did not have high hopes for a “visible improvement...
...Donald Tusk has thrown down the gauntlet to populists and nationalists inside the European People’s party, demanding a quick resolution to bitter internal struggles as he takes over leadership of the EU’...
...Donald Tusk, president of the European People’s Party, the centre-right grouping in the European parliament which includes several EU governing parties, said the EPP was “very concerned by political cases...
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