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#PresidentialElections2019 Iohannis: PSD is desperately clinging to power, PSD will lose elections

President Klaus Iohannis stated on Friday, at the regional meeting of National Liberal Party (PNL) South-Muntenia branches, organized in Pitesti, that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is "desperately clinging to power" and stated that the Social Democrats will lose the election. "The PNL is powerful and determined. They can feel it too.

Prof. George Pagoulatos named new DG of ELIAMEP think-tank

European politics Professor George Pagoulatos has been named the new director general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), replacing Dr Thanos Dokos, who was appointed deputy national security adviser to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the think-tank said on Friday.

Democracy Digest: Orban’s Full Diplomatic Dance Card

Orban's circles invested heavily in media in Slovenia and ran the kind of ugly anti-immigration campaign that is so familiar in Hungary. Unfortunately for Fidesz, the investment did not pay off. Jansa won the elections but could not form a government.

Still, his meeting with Sarec was just a warm-up for a week of moving and shaking on the diplomatic stage.

Meaningless opposition

Throughout the world, opposition parties oppose. They oppose policy, point out government errors, expose their rivals, put forward proposals etc. What the main opposition in Greece does, though, is threaten.

Anastasiades says Nicosia will ‘not waver under threats’

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said the Mediterranean island will "not waver under threats" and continue efforts to reach a peace settlement.
"We will not waver under threats and we will continue to fight for the issue," Anastasiades said after being awarded with an honorary law degree from the Law School of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University on Thursday.

Trump impeachment effort passes first test in divided US Congress

A deeply divided U.S. House of Representatives took a major step on Oct. 31 in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public, stage in the Democratic-led inquiry into Trump's attempt to have Ukraine investigate a domestic political rival.

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