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Austria’s Kurz faces no-confidence vote

Bloomberg Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is set to face a no-confidence vote as soon as next week, raising the specter of a deepening state crisis. His decision to sack nationalist Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, triggering the resignation of the remaining Freedom Party cabinet members, estranged his erstwhile partners and raised the chances that the parliamentary motion will pass with Freedom ...

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Separatists leave jail to sit in Spanish parliament

Bloomberg Five Catalan separatist leaders emerged from jail to take up their seats in Spain’s parliament on Tuesday in an act of political theatre that may inflame passions on both sides of a divided country. Oriol Junqueras, the leader of the Esquerra Republicana party, is among four pro-independence campaigners who won seats in the lower house in Spanish general elections ...

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Trump subpoena defiance puts Democrats in a bind

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s decision to fight “all the subpoenas” is pushing Democrats towards a complicated and risky choice: take on the White House in a lengthy court battle or begin an impeachment. The impeachment process would strengthen Democrats’ legal case for enforcing subpoenas, but it would open them to political attacks from Republicans saying they are rushing toward a ...

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