Politics

Bloomberg Estonia’s ruling Center Party, the runner-up in parliamentary elections, unexpectedly invited anti-immigrant populists to coalition talks, raising the risk that nationalists may gain a voice in another European Union government. With the EU struggling to address gains made by euroskeptic nationalists in elections from Rome to Warsaw, Center invited the anti-establishment EKRE party and the junior ruling Isamaa to ...

Bloomberg Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said he opposes a strategy of creating large European corporate champions at the expense of competition within the region. “We can’t accept it when some large member states say it’s essential to create big champions at the global scale, merging European companies, sacrificing competition in the internal market and sacrificing the development potential of ...

Bloomberg Theresa May’s government declared Brexit talks are “deadlocked” as ministers urged the European Union to make a last minute concession to stop the deal being thrown out by Parliament this week. May’s office said on Monday that she spoke to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker by telephone late on Sunday, but the prime minister is not planning to travel ...

Bloomberg Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrived home from Geneva, signalling that the Algerian president intends to push ahead with his bid for re-election in the face of mass demonstrations demanding he step aside. Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term has triggered seismic protests in the North African OPEC member, presenting the 82-year-old leader and ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party ...

Bloomberg A Philippine news website critical of President Rodrigo Duterte violated a constitutional ban on foreign ownership in media companies, the Court of Appeals said in a decision released Monday. Rappler Inc. cannot claim that it is 100-percent Philippine-owned as required by law, the appeals court said, standing by its earlier decision affirming Securities and Exchange Commission’s closure order. The ...

Bloomberg The fight for the future of Venezuela re-opened on the streets of its capital, with electricity flickering in-and-out around the country for most of the last three days. Juan Guaido, the challenger to President Nicolas Maduro, brought thousands of supporters to the streets of Caracas, though fewer showed up than in late January after the National Assembly he heads ...

Bloomberg India said Pakistani forces violated a cease-fire agreement along the Line of Control in Kashmir, and accused its neighbour of failing to take credible action against terror groups. There was shelling with mortars and the firing of small arms by Pakistan in the early hours of Sunday, and India “retaliated befittingly,” according to an Indian defense official. The Indian ...

Bloomberg Algeria’s people and the army share the same vision for the country’s future, the military chief of staff said on Sunday, in an apparent overture to thousands protesting the re-election bid of the country’s aging president.The military and the people “are partners in one destiny,” General Ahmed Gaid Salah said in his first comments since the biggest protests yet ...

Bloomberg India will hold elections from April to May to decide whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a second term as leader of the world’s largest democracy. Around 900 million voters — 84 million more than in 2014 — will elect 543 lawmakers to the lower house of parliament, the chief election commissioner Sunil Arora said. Voting will run in ...

Bloomberg North Koreans cast their votes on Sunday in a parliamentary election that comes as leader Kim Jong-un faces mounting pressure to demonstrate his ability to cope with the international sanctions squeezing his country. The regime holds elections every five years to pick representatives to the Supreme People’s Assembly — North Korea’s rubber stamp parliament — with the last one ...