The FARC came out of the parliamentary elections in Colombia on Sunday as the big loser. It was the first time that the former 'narcoguerrilla' participated in elections and barely won any votes.
After counting the votes in most constituencies, it is clear that the populist and Eurosceptic parties are the big winners of the Italian parliamentary elections.
According to Russia, the United States is trying to influence the Russian presidential election. State press agency RIA reported that on the basis of foreign secretary Sergey Rjabkov. It is a reaction to the accusations of US intelligence agencies, which say that Moscow has mixed in the 2016 presidential election, won by Donald Trump.
The exit polls of the Italian parliamentary elections show that the Five Star movement has clearly become the largest party, with around 30% of the votes. In the second place, afterwards, the center-left governmental party PD with some more than 20%.
The attendance at the parliamentary elections in Italy appears to be higher on Sunday than at the ballot box in 2013. Italian media reported that at 12 noon more than 19 percent of voters had voted. Five years ago that was almost 15 percent.
Around 120 employees of the German Social Democratic Party SPD are preparing for a long night. They count the votes of party members who have spoken by letter about a new coalition with their party and the Christian Democrats of Angela Merkel.
More than fifty million Italian voters are threatening to choose a parliament on Sunday that can not form a stable government because of divisions. The country changed the electoral system last year to create some order. With a threshold of 3 percent and some changes in the way parliamentary seats are achieved, a stable government with a majority could come. Whoever obtains about 40 percent of the votes, would have a majority on Monday.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing populist party Front National, is being persecuted by the French Public Prosecution Service because it distributed three photos of Islamic State (IS) abuses through Twitter. Le Pen risks in theory a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.
The European Commission has requested information from the Slovak authorities about possible abuse of EU agricultural subsidies. The daily EU administration responds to media reports that an Italian mafia network with ties in Slovak government circles would have eclipsed EU money.
Facebook has informed a British parliamentary committee that further research has not provided any new evidence for Russian influence on the Brexit referendum via the platforms of the social medium. British voters voted in 2016 with a departure from the European Union.
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Peace Committee believes that a nomination submitted in favor of US President Donald Trump is false. The committee has handed over the case to the police, BBC reports Wednesday.
At least five Colombian soldiers were killed on Tuesday by a bomb attack, carried out by the Marxist ELN rebels. Also, more than ten soldiers were wounded by the attack near the border with Venezuela, according to the army.
A week before the parliamentary elections in Italy, tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in different cities of the country. Significantly more people than expected took part in an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome despite the bad weather. The protest was peaceful, said a spokesperson for the police in the evening.
At the end of this week, European leaders started the first discussions on the new multi-annual budget of the EU. At the same time, there is already informal consultation about the future of Europe, with Germany and France taking the lead. These countries want more European cooperation, at the expense of the current powers that EU countries still have. This mainly concerns more Brussels in the financial-economic field and more money for the EU.
How will the European Parliament and the EU budget for the period 2021-2027 appear after the European elections of May next year? And how is it determined who will become the next President of the European Commission? The Heads of Government of the Member States are here Friday at an informal summit in Brussels, without the British Prime Minister.
The former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, sees an advantage in his old age. 'I am like good wine', the 81-year-old twittered. 'I am getting better with age and now I am perfect.' The multimillionaire actively participates in the election campaign prior to the parliamentary elections in Italy.
The controversial Belgian-Lebanese publicist Dyab Abou Jahjah is taking part in the municipal elections in Belgium with a new political party in October and the parliamentary elections a year later. The party gets the name 'be.one', as it was announced at a press conference in Brussels.
The South African president Jacob Zuma refuses to resign. He was replaced in December as leader of the African National Congress (ANC) after allegations of corruption. Despite great pressure, he does not want to resign as president.
The net is increasingly closing around bitcoins. Countries restrict trade in the so far unregulated crypto coins and financial derivatives. That can lead to a crash, warn asset managers.
Russia is going to plead in the United Nations for stopping the Turkish military operation in Syria. That said Franz Klintsevich, a prominent member of the Russian Parliamentary Committee on Security.
Just before the special party congress of the German Social Democrats, the SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) has reached a low point in opinion polls.
The members of the British House of Commons approved the law with 324 against 295 votes, which will break ties with the European Union. That was a victory for Prime Minister Theresa May on her political opponents, who argue for a soft approach when they leave the EU.
The European Parliament immediately holds half of the monthly salary of the British brexit champion Nigel Farage. The former leader of the anti-EU party UKIP has received 40,000 euros for a European parliamentary assistant who in reality works in Great Britain for UKIP's national agency.
The Christian Democratic CDU / CSU and the Social Democratic SPD want to abandon a climate goal set for 2020 when it comes to the formation of a government coalition. Sources within the negotiating parties announced on Monday that CDU / CSU and SPD think it is not feasible to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40% in 2020 compared to 1990.
Since the elections in June last year, 24,500 attempts have been made from the British Parliament to visit porn sites. Official data show that parliamentarians, members of the upper house and employees click on average 160 times a day on average.
Almost half of the Germans think that Angela Merkel should soon resign as Chancellor. This appears from a Saturday published poll of the newspaper Die Welt.
The Spanish king Felipe VI called upon the Catalan policy makers three days after the regional parliamentary elections to act responsibly and wisely. 'In Catalonia, the road must not lead again to confrontation or exclusion,' said the monarch on Sunday evening in his Christmas speech on TV.
A federal judge in New York has rejected the lawsuit against US President Donald Trump for accepting foreign payments through his companies.
The separatist parties in Catalonia have won a majority in the regional parliamentary elections. After 99.89 percent of the votes were counted, it appeared that the three parties that strive for independence together had 70 seats, a narrow majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
The Spanish police are looking for a terrorist in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. It would be the 37-year-old jihadist Ouakili Abdelhakim.
