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20th Mar 2023

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Danish People's Party biggest in EU elections

The populist Danish People's Party may have beaten PM Thorning-Schmidt's ruling Social Democrat party, 23.1% against 20.5%, a Danmarks Radio exit poll shows. The Liberal party is third with 17.2%. The Danish People's Party has confirmed talks with the UK conservatives on forming joint a political group in the EP.

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'Symbolic' Putin indictment gets some EU backing

Several EU foreign ministers welcomed the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin, but it is unlikely to influence negotiations about a special tribunal on the crime of agression.

'Final warning' to act on climate change, warns IPCC

The United Nations's report — synthesising years of climate, biodiversity, and nature research — paints a picture of the effects of global warming on the natural world, concluding there is "no time for inaction and delays."

'No one is unemployable': the French social experiment

More than five million people in the EU have been unemployed for more than a year. Lack of skills or education is not always the reason or the solution they need, says a proposal for an EU Job Guarantee.

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Why can't we stop marches glorifying Nazism on EU streets?

Every year, neo-Nazis come together to pay tribute to Nazi war criminals and their collaborators, from Benito Mussolini to Rudolf Hess, Ante Pavelić, Hristo Lukov, and of course Adolf Hitler, in events that have become rituals on the extreme-right calendar.

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