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After the announcement of the EU-US "deal" on tariffs, it's become clear that a change to a firmer, more clear-eyed leadership in the #EU needs to come. Someone needs to show their audacity to come out and say "This is my leader @vonderleyen, and I'm ambitious for her"

@MapsHand2483 You can draw a map of the whole world to represent voters living outside Italy.

🇮🇹🗳️ Oh go on then! Making this map was a last minute decision so I’m playing on easy mode. Italians are voting to amend their constitution. Yes or No. How hard can it be? See you tomorrow! #ReferendumGiustizia

10 years ago, Brussels and the entire country stood still. 🇧🇪 This city showed resilience in the aftermath of attacks, and collective strength helps to heal its people. Today, we honour the victims and those who still carry the weight of that day. We will never forget. 🕯️

@Alejandro_SocEU Which website is this btw?

Slovenia 🇸🇮 — Popular vote forecast. Svoboda beats SDS by a razor-thin margin.

@ElectsWorld This is only "Metropolitan" France, not the whole country.

🇫🇷#France, municipal elections (2nd round): ⏫Turnout at midday: 20,3 % (+5) (+/- 2020 second round) #Municipales2026

@EuropeElects There are also municipal run-off in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg and in many localities across Bavaria today, maybe they deserve a spot on the calendar too?

🗳️ Voters head to the polls today in France, Italy, Slovenia, and the German region of Rhineland-Palatinate. Looking ahead, elections take place in Denmark on Tuesday and in the Faroe Islands on Thursday. 📅 Full schedule: Europe Elects Calendar europeelects.eu/calendar/

South Australia tonight is not really about who wins government. Labor will. The real question is what shifts underneath that victory. Polling heading into the vote has Labor clearly in front, while One Nation has surged past the Liberals in some late surveys, turning the night into less a contest over government and more a test of political realignment. So what do we watch? First, where One Nation polls well. In a state as geographically vast and politically uneven as South Australia, judging One Nation purely by seat gains is too blunt. The better test is the damage it does to the electoral demography, where it re-orders who comes second, who owns the protest vote, and whose base is hollowed out. There is the possibility that One Nation could overtake the Liberals and finish second in a swathe of safe Labor seats, which would be a major psychological and structural blow for the Coalition because this will be the first live example of polling numbers that have been pointing to such a scenario. I will also be looking at Playford and Elizabeth. Labor will win them easily. Both are in Adelaide’s outer north and both are very safe Labor seats. Playford is held by John Fulbrook, while Elizabeth is being contested after the retirement of Lee Odenwalder. So if tonight One Nation runs second to Labor in Playford or Elizabeth, that’s telling. It is one of the most important signs on the board. It would mean the Liberals are no longer even the default opposition in parts of outer northern Adelaide. These are not classic Liberal heartland seats. They are safe Labor, working-class, outer suburban electorates. If One Nation starts becoming the principal anti-Labor vessel there, the story is no longer just conservative fragmentation. It is a deeper demographic fracture inside the old two-party system that we can translate into all other large cities. Then there is the broader pincer problem for the Liberals. The scenario to watch tonight is whether that squeeze becomes visible in hard data: Labor dominating metropolitan Adelaide, while One Nation eats into what used to be the Liberals’ rusted-on vote in the regions, provinces and outer suburbs. That is the real South Australian story. Not whether Labor wins. It will. But whether the Liberal Party emerges even weaker as a political vessel, pushed out of parts of Adelaide by Labor, and displaced in sections of the outer north and beyond by One Nation.

Breaking: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

VCT EMEA Update: Team changes

AfD-Mitglied (44) zündet eigenes Auto an und beschuldigt Linke – Drohbrief der Antifa gefälscht mittelbayerische.de/20754958

This is totally insane. A war correspondent just received death threats from online gamblers who wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. One bettor had $900,000 riding on the outcome. He told the journalist he knew where he lived and who his family members were.  This is what prediction markets on life and death actually look like in practice. This is exactly why I introduced the DEATH BETS Act with Senator @AdamSchiff. The DEATH BETS Act would ban contracts on assassinations, deaths of world leaders, and acts of war on platforms like Polymarket. This story shows exactly why that matters.  When you let people place million-dollar bets on whether a missile kills someone, you create a financial incentive to threaten journalists, manipulate information, and profit from human suffering. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

I’m deeply troubled by the news of the execution of a Swedish citizen in Iran. Finland categorically rejects the imposition of the death penalty under any and all circumstances. It is the responsibility of Iran to ensure that the rights of the people are respected, including the right to a fair trial.

La justice valide l'interdiction des signes religieux dans les conseils municipaux l.franceinfo.fr/vjP

The EU and Iceland are close friends. Our security is shared, and so are the challenges we face. Today’s signature of an EU-Iceland Security and Defence Partnership takes our relationship to the next level. This will deepen our cooperation in areas that matter for the safety of our citizens, from maritime security to the protection of critical infrastructure. This is a win for the EU and for Iceland.

@Gust_2319 @Hezbolsonaro And CIS doesn't conduct polls, it just spats out pro-PSOE propaganda (And I say this as someone who prefers PSOE to PP-VOX)

@Hezbolsonaro Compared to the last poll from the same pollster, the PSOE is declining a bit.

Lmao Trump is saving Pedro Sanchez

When you use a personal phone for government work, it becomes a government work phone. It is that simple. To destroy our freedom of information law in an effort to avoid accountability is the action of someone hiding something.

GOP will hold Virginia’s HD-98 Margin will get closer when final mail added on Friday Still GOP over performance compared to 2024 Easy to read into special elections But VA GOP seems more motivated than last year So Dems shouldn’t take redistricting referendum for granted

To Irish people and friends of Ireland, wherever you may be, happy Saint Patrick’s Day 🇮🇪 Do mhuintir na hÉireann agus do chairde na hÉireann pé áit a bhfuil sibh, Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh 🌍

I have just spoken with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian. I called on him to put an immediate end to the unacceptable attacks Iran is carrying out against countries in the region, whether directly or through proxies, including in Lebanon and Iraq. I reminded him that France is acting within a strictly defensive framework aimed at protecting its interests, its regional partners, and freedom of navigation, and that it is unacceptable for our country to be targeted. The unchecked escalation we are witnessing is plunging the entire region into chaos, with major consequences today and for the years to come. The people of Iran, like those across the region, are paying the price. Only a new political and security framework can ensure peace and security for all. Such a framework must guarantee that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, while also addressing the threats posed by its ballistic missile programme and its destabilising activities regionally and internationally. Freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be restored as soon as possible. I also urged the Iranian President to allow Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris to return safely to France as soon as possible. Their ordeal has gone on for far too long, and they belong with their loved ones.

According to an investigation by @dpa_intl , internal chat logs reveal that @ManfredWeber ’s @EPPGroup @EPP has been collaborating at European level with the far right, including figures from the @AfD . The “firewall” against the AfD, strictly enforced in Germany, clearly does not apply in Brussels. This is not leadership; it is political drift. It reflects an extremist drift that weakens the European project and is a cause for serious concern. Weber cannot present himself as pro-European in public while, behind closed doors, striking deals with forces that are openly anti-European and flank Putin.

The revised 2026 calendar 🗓️ #MotoGP