By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s only Black lawmaker suspended himself from his left-wing party on Thursday after his family was accused of mismanaging funds and exploiting staff at…
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament easily approved the majority Socialist government’s 2023 budget bill on its first reading on Thursday, paving the way for planned further deficit and debt reductions…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech parliament gave its initial nod to the 2023 state budget bill, setting the deficit at 295 billion crowns ($12.1 billion) as the country grapples with…
By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) – The Italian right-wing coalition’s resounding victory in Sunday’s general election marks a return to parliament for former premier Silvio Berlusconi, nine years after he…
LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s lower house of parliament will consider summoning Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to face questioning in a closed session, senior lawmaker Sergei Mironov was cited as saying…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament ratified the entry of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday, bringing the two Nordic countries one step closer to…
By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s security forces were called on Monday to secure a voting process in parliament and hold back rowdy opposition members of parliament (MP) who…
Climate Activists Superglued Themselves Inside UK Parliament Using A Petroleum-Based Product Jack McEvoy on September 2, 2022 Extinction Rebellion, an international group of climate activists, announced on Friday that they…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law cementing the country’s membership of the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), making it the latest Southeast Asian nation to…
By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers on Monday voted in favour of setting up an inquiry commission to probe the phone tapping of an opposition leader that led…
ROME – The Italian parliament has given its final approval to a highly contested bill to promote competition in product and services markets, required to help secure a new tranche…
SYDNEY – Australia’s parliament sat on Tuesday in Canberra for the first time since Labor won office in an election that also saw the Greens party win record seats, reflecting…
Sri Lankan Parliament Elects Allegedly Corrupt Former Prime Minister As President Micaela Burrow on July 20, 2022 Sri Lanka’s parliament elected former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a figure seen by…
KYIV -Ukraine’s parliament dismissed the domestic security chief and prosecutor general on Tuesday, two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suspended them for failing to root out Russian spies. Ivan Bakanov…
BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha fended off accusations of corruption and economic mismanagement in a televised session of parliament on Tuesday, as a censure debate got under way…
By Elizabeth Pineau and Leigh Thomas PARIS – President Emmanuel Macron’s French government, hunting for votes to enact a cost-of-living relief bill after losing its majority in parliament, is open…
Israeli Parliament Bargains With Netanyahu To Ease Government Collapse Micaela Burrow on June 27, 2022 The doomed Israeli government has reportedly offered to bargain with Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
Israeli Lawmakers Will Vote To Dissolve Parliament, Hold New Elections Micaela Burrow on June 20, 2022 Israel’s coalition government will dissolve next week as the country heads a new round…
By Michel Rose PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron may find himself without a ruling majority during his second term and unable to push through his economic reform agenda with…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA – Canadian police are investigating a possible risk to national security that forced parliament to lock down for several hours on Saturday after border agents warned…
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – One of Sri Lanka’s richest businessmen will replace the president’s brother in parliament, a ruling party official said on Friday, as the cash-strapped country moves…
PARIS – The centrist camp of French President Emmanuel Macron is not guaranteed to win an absolute majority in this month’s legislative elections, two polls showed on Tuesday. Macron won…
LONDON – Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved a bill in the first reading that removes legal liability for parallel imports of a range of goods and intellectual…
PARIS – The new French government will draft a bill on how to protect consumers’ purchasing power before the start of parliamentary elections in June, government spokeswoman Olivia Gregoire said…
By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT – When Halime El Kaakour enters Lebanon’s parliament as a newly elected lawmaker next week, she will step past the same concrete barriers…