Law and Justice’s (PiS) candidate for prime minister, Beata Szydlo.
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Poland has weathered the economic storm that engulfed Europe, but its centrist government has nonetheless been booted out. Why?
The high court’s ruling has Google and other tech companies rushing to build data centers in Europe.
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The EU’s highest court invalidated a key data sharing agreement between the union and the US, exposing the deep cultural clash over privacy and surveillance.
Motorised dinghies arrive on the beach near Efthalou in the north of Lesvos.
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Refugees are still flocking to Lesvos in their thousands – and as long as the water offers more hope than the land, people will continue to die.
Reuters/Susana Vera
October 16 is traditionally a day in which the Spanish nation is celebrated. But questions are being asked about what that nation is these days.
Land of hope and Tory.
Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Big laughs, attacks on Corbyn but what’s the plan on Europe?
Leaving the club?
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We should be debating the options for Brexit to better understand what is at stake.
Reuters / Rafael Marchante
Like Greece and Spain, Portugal endured a bailout and austerity. But it has not seen the rise of a Syriza or Podemos equivalent.
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The abolition of inheritance tax in Norway is having repercussions on their cabin culture.
Refugees collect water as they wait to be registered at a centre in Presevo, Serbia.
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Too long stigmatised as Europe’s outsiders, the people of Serbia are seizing an opportunity to change their country’s image.
Here goes nothing.
Reuters/Gustau Nacarino
Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
Reuters/Albert Gea
Denied a chance to hold a referendum, the pro-independence movement are calling the region’s parliamentary elections a plebiscite.
Obama owes these three a thank you note.
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As President Obama writes his thank you notes to Democrats in Congress who helped him pass the accord, he better not forget about his European partners.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Reuters/Yannis Behrakis
Greece’s bailout may have allayed fears of a eurozone exit, but euroscepticism remains high in Greece’s election build up.
The Fed building in New York: just a nice facade?
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Market speculation on whether the Fed will raise rates is reaching fever pitch, but the central bank no longer has the pull it once did.
Refugees are escorted to especially chartered trains after they arrived at the main train station in Munich.
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How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
Moroccan woman Samira Yerou is arrested at Barcelona airport in March on suspicion of attempting to join IS militants in Syria.
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Western media tropes of black widows, deviant sexuality and unthinking compliance fail to explain why violence crosses the gender divide.
A refugee prays in a makeshift camp.
Reuters/Ognen Teofilovski
The discourse about who is and isn’t welcome is taking on a disturbing new tone.
Cutting a lonely figure.
Reuters/Vincent Kessler
The European Commission president believes more integration and cooperation is the solution to Europe’s many problems. But it’s hard to see this happening.
Hear me now.
Reuters/Vincent Kessler
Junker reinforced his mandate to act as a guarantor of EU integration, preserve the unity of the EU and the Eurozone, and to take leadership in addressing the refugee crisis.