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...Asked whether he believed former PP prime minister Mariano Rajoy knew about “black accounts” operated by a former party treasurer, he said: “In the end, what we have decided is not to speak any more about...
...Under the tight control of former conservative prime minister José Maria Aznar, the PP held together as a broad church, encompassing social and economic liberals, Christian Democrats and those nostalgic...
...About 86 per cent of Brazilians declared themselves Christian in the last census in 2010, with nearly 65 per cent saying they were Catholic and more than 22 per cent evangelical Christian....
...Horst Seehofer, interior minister and chairman of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, has managed to trigger the most serious government crisis...
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Casado, who took over the reins of the centre-right People’s party from Mariano Rajoy, the ousted prime minister, said the plans were “technically incorrect,...
...He insists that Fidesz, by standing against mass Muslim migration, is the true defender of Christian Europe....
...The ousting of Mariano Rajoy in Spain this month is the latest calamity for a political machine that has dominated European policymaking since the millennium....
...In their response to the gathering storm, Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, and his ruling Popular party have been cack-handed at best....
...Expected to be formalised tomorrow, the coalition will include Mr Rutte’s centre-right VVD party, the Dutch Liberal Democrats (D66), and conservative Christian Democratic (CDA) and Christian Union (CU) parties...
...FDP red lines A revealing interview in Die Presse with Christian Lindner, the youthful leader of Germany’s Free Democratic party....
...El País reports that Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, is willing to halt any moves to suspend the region’s autonomy (through article 155 of the constitution) if the Catalan leader calls early elections...
...But the FDP’s charismatic leader Christian Lindner says he’d prefer to be the party’s parliamentary chief....
...PM Mariano Rajoy responded to the region's non-declaration of independence by asking for more clarity from Carles Puigdemont, which he said was “necessary when activating Article 155”....
...Christian Odendahl, at the Centre for European Reform, examines the impact a higher-spending Germany will have on the eurozone economy and the ECB....
...Mr Rajoy is no ideological hardliner, but a Christian Democrat in the continental European tradition....
...The speakers’ list yesterday featured Angela Merkel, Mariano Rajoy, Viktor Orban and the heads of the three main EU institutions....
...Spanish history Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday made history in a way he struggled to avoid, as the first sitting Spanish prime minister to appear as a witness in a criminal case....
...Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is also expected to use the summit as an opportunity to bring Spain in from the margins of the European political debate....
...Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister and leader of the PP, lost a third of his deputies....
...The March 13 vote is seen as a bellwether for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy, and a new survey has her Christian Democrats in what Die Welt calls a “freefall”....
...Their collection was a meditation on the famous Christian Dior “Bar” jacket, created as part of The New Look in 1947 and then revitalised under Simons. It’s one of the house’s most distinctive totems....
...Or should the leading parties compromise and find a governing coalition, as outgoing prime minister (and election winner) Mariano Rajoy has been urging?...
...Universal Music, which set up its Universal Christian Music Group division in Brazil in 2013, estimates the local gospel music market is growing at 15 per cent a year....
...After decades of frustration, Madrid’s anger is now boiling over ahead of an EU summit this week, where diplomats expect a showdown between Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and French President François Hollande...
...But Mariano Rajoy, Spanish prime minister, dropped out of the talks, leaving Portugal’s Pedro Passos Coelho to battle for the Iberians....
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