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Czech governing parties keep tripping over their own mistakes, yet the opposition isn't cashing in. A STEM/MARK survey finds nearly half of opposition voters unimpressed with their own side, pointing to disunity and a missing strong leader as the real story of this parliamentary term.
The short version: Stefan Evers is now the man who has to clean up after Kai Wegner's resignation, a new Insa poll shows the Union narrowing the gap to the AfD but Merz's own ratings barely moving, and a Welt analysis argues the AfD has stopped being a niche phenomenon. Together, they show why Berlin's local leadership fight is really a preview of the CDU's national problem.
The man arrested over Ann Widdecombe's killing has been released without charge, leaving Devon and Cornwall Police back at square one. Meanwhile a former Sky News presenter's comments about the late minister have pulled British coverage of her death into an unrelated row over sexism in the media.
Kai Wegner has pulled out of running as the CDU's lead candidate for Berlin after mishandling a citywide power outage — and the fallout says as much about Merz's coalition as it does about Wegner.
Graham Platner has formally filed paperwork to withdraw from Maine's Senate race, confirming what our earlier coverage flagged as likely. Democrats now have to pick a fresh challenger to Susan Collins fast — and the outcome matters well beyond Maine, since the Senate's margin shapes votes on Ukraine funding, NATO commitments and sanctions policy.
Germany's coalition rammed its health-insurance savings law through the Bundestag, but family doctors call it a fiasco, an SPD state premier is vowing resistance, and the Constitutional Court is now reviewing the process. It's a small fiscal fix with outsized political risk.
Two votes, days apart: a hurried German health-cost package and a revived EU 'chat control' surveillance law. Both share the same method — speed over scrutiny — and the second one reaches straight into your phone.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš admitted Czechia will not meet the alliance's spending goal this year and reframed Ukraine aid around the U.S. PURL programme, while President Petr Pavel called the change a positive signal. The two men even described the same leaders' dinner in irreconcilable ways.
PM Andrej Babiš has floated selling the state's 40% in Prague Airport for as much as 25 billion crowns. Here's what it would actually buy — and why economists are uneasy.
Andrej Babiš and Petr Pavel arrived at the same NATO summit, left the same hotel for the same dinner — in separate motorcades. Here's what the split delegation actually means, and why it matters beyond the awkward photos.