Europe politics

Europe politics

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that his government would quickly work to follow recent court rulings requiring Poland to legally recognize same-sex marriages conducted in other European Union (EU) member nations.

The UK wants to limit the number of young people from the EU who come into the country as part of a post-Brexit youth mobility scheme to below 50,000, it has emerged. The EU has already rejected a cap and wants unlimited visas with an annual review on numbers instead, to allow an emergency brake on the scheme if politically desirable.

Niels Paarup-Petersen, immigration spokesperson for the Centre Party, said that his party had now committed to making the issue part of coalition negotiations if the opposition parties win a majority in the election on September 13th. "When Tido hopefully falls, we will take up in our discussions with any future government that transitional rules should be applied and reintroduced," he told The Local. "Of course, it will be complicated, but as we've seen with teen deportations, if the Migration Agency sees that there is a strong possibility that new rules are coming that will affect people positively, they might not be eager to make decisions."

The king of Denmark has asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has failed to put together a ruling coalition. The announcement on Friday night shook the political establishment as Frederiksen has been a staple of Danish politics for decades. Her left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, won the plurality of votes in parliamentary elections in March. But despite winning the most votes, it was the Social Democrats' worst electoral showing since 1903 and no party won a majority.

An open letter sent to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) from campaign group Irish Sport for Palestine accuses Israel of engaging in genocide in the war in Gaza and of breaching UEFA and FIFA statutes by allowing teams to play on occupied Palestinian land.

Europe must prepare for sudden vulnerability gaps if the fickle US president decides to pull out key military enablers before Europeans can develop their own alternatives. European countries have already taken over financial and political responsibility for supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Vladimir Putin's war of aggression, as Trump has increasingly sided with Moscow in trying to force Kyiv to hand over swathes of territory to Russia.

Patricia King is being lined up to take over the role vacated by the former Dublin GAA manager after he stood down in January.

On April 25, Israeli protesters marched to the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv, carrying Hungarian flags and chanting slogans against the extreme right-wing government led by Netanyahu.