• Reuters

    Spain's far-right Vox quits ECR to join Orban's new European Parliament group

    Spanish far-right party Vox said on Friday it would leave the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament to join a new alliance led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The move deals a blow to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's hopes of securing the ECR's position as the third-largest grouping in the supranational legislative body and leading the opposition to the majority, which comprises moderate conservatives, social democrats and liberals. "The patriotic forces that have seen their presence in the EP boosted have a historic opportunity to turn the voters' mandate into one great group that can become an alternative to the coalition between the centre-right, Socialists and the far left," Vox said in a statement.

  • Benzinga

    Are You Better Off Than You Were four Years Ago? Reagan's Famous 1980 Campaign Question Haunts Biden As Poll Results Reveal the Answer

    "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" was famously used by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential debate and remains relevant in elections today. Recent polls indicate that many Americans do not feel better under President Joe Biden's administration. According to a February AP-NORC poll, only 24% of Americans feel better off since Biden took office, while 41% feel worse off and 34% feel the same. These figures highlight the mixed sentiments about economic progress during Biden's

  • Reuters

    Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy- document

    Germany's coalition government is set to overhaul the way renewable energy is subsidised so that power producers would get one-off support for their investment costs instead of a guaranteed price for power they produce, a finance ministry document showed on Friday. A shift to investment subsidies would mark a significant change in Germany's renewables market and would seek to make the industry less dependent on government support. "The goal is to shift the expansion of new renewable energy sources to investment cost subsidies," according to the document, part of the ruling coalition's deal for next year's budget agreed on Friday.