The constitution requires the chancellor to hold a vote of confidence before calling snap elections.

Poland is the world's twenty-first-largest economy and will soon seek to join the G20.

Spain’s Sanchez and Italy’s Meloni are the most senior duo attending.

“I do not recall ever seeing a procedure like this,” Pierre Larouche, a law professor at the Université de Montréal and research fellow at the Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE), told Euractiv. 

With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 213 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research.

Tension began to build on Wednesday as some of the 3,000 visiting Maccabi supporters had minor altercations with locals including taxi drivers and Ajax supporters in the city centre, police said.

Borrell, the first top EU official to visit Kyiv since Donald Trump's win, said that the purpose of his visit was to stress EU support for Ukraine, as its war with Russia nears 1,000 days.

In a tense standoff, a protester told Walter Rosenkranz: "We do not want you to spit in our ancestors' faces".

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement carried by Iranian mediathat the claim was a "repulsive" plot by Israel and Iranian opposition outside the country to "complicate matters between America and Iran."

With Trump headed back to the White House after a campaign loaded with threats of steep tariffs on foreign goods, the European Union wants to avoid a damaging trade war with its biggest ally.

“[Trump] will come with trade ideas. We have to stand up, negotiate and make a deal. It all depends on how good, how strong we are," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

"The times of European indecision are over," he said, declaring that he would prioritise Germany’s role in the continent "so that Europe can take action as a player at this world stage."

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The opposition Christian Democrats had pushed to hold snap elections earlier than initially planned by the German chancellor.

Violent assaults on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam took place two days before the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms.

The option for new EU funds seems to stand a better chance in light of the second big development of the week: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz firing his Finance Minister Christian Lindner – a staunch fiscal hawk.

Trump’s win not only reminds Europe that it must be able to stand on its own feet in digital tech. It also illustrates the collateral damage unguided digitalisation can do to societies, writes Daniel Mügge.

The theater’s director Vassil Vassilev called the protest “censorship and open fascism.”

Will Virkkunen finally put to rest the network fees ideas to focus on what really matters for the Internet ecosystem and EU citizens? Information Labs’ research certainly points in that direction.

A US retreat at the UN could play in the hands of China, which has been building its influence in global diplomacy.