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Germany
Euroviews. Bavarian election: Do not forget the biggest loser, SPD! | View
SPD’s vote actually halved, from 20.6% in 2013, to just 9.7%! This marks the party’s worst result in Bavaria since the 1930s, and is the first state parliament now where they have fallen below the symbolic 10% threshold in recent history - a painful exercise for a former Volkspartei.
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Serbia
Euroviews. Politicised judiciary hurts Serbia's chances of joining the EU | View
Serbia’s failure to introduce genuine judicial reform will seriously jeopardise the country’s European future regardless of possible progress in relations with Kosovo, writes a policy analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute.
United Kingdom
Euroviews. Orban is not Hungary, like the Conservative Party is not the UK | View
Any hopes that the new Foreign Secretary would tone down the rhetoric were quickly dispelled recently with Jeremy Hunt’s appalling and indefensible comparison of the EU to a ‘Soviet prison’- prompting Nigel Farage to remark that Hunt was now ‘talking his language.’
United Kingdom
Euroviews. Tories back Orban: Abstention would have sent different signal | View
A large majority of the European Parliament voted to trigger article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty. This majority included many of Fidesz’s colleagues in the EPP (traditionally a very pro-EU grouping) whose affiliation to the EPP is being seriously tested by Fidesz’s membership, writes London's Green MEP.
Europe News
The Brief from Brussels: Brexit rhetoric gets harsher
The UK Foreign Secretary's comparison of the EU with the Soviet Union has sparked consternation. Also in this edition: an exhibition featuring the Catalan independence referendum one year on - Belgium expects disruptions as unions call for a day of action - the Eurogroup debates Italy's budget.
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