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Europe Day marks 1 month till EU elections. Rise of hard right, wilting of Green Deal are possible | KLRT [Video]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate policies.

After decades in which the EU elections hardly caused a ripple, the June 6-9 voting is the most important in memory. It is being held at a time of continuous crises on a continent which is experiencing a war in Ukraine, climate emergencies, a shifting of geopolitical plates and fundamental questions on the reach and purpose of the EU itself.

“It will be an existential fight,” said Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and outgoing free-market liberal member of parliament who has been in the thick of EU politics for over a quarter century. It will pit “those …

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Poland votes against EU migration pact | Piotr Kaczyński [Video]

The European Council endorsed a migration pact, but Poland voted against all ten provisions. To tell us more we invited Piotr Kaczyński, an EU expert from Geremek Foundation, joins us to tell us more.#tvpworldWatch more on our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/TVPWorldBringing you all the latest daily news and updates, TVP World is Poland's first English-language channel where you can find world news as seen from the Polish perspective and the latest news from the CEE region. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://tvpworld.com/ https://www.facebook.com/tvpworldcom https://twitter.com/TVPWorld_com https://www.instagram.com/tvp_world/

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Dont Say Gay rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless [Video]

"As a scholar of medieval literature and religion, Ive been struck by the resonances between modern and medieval censorship of queer texts," writes Jessica Hines. "Both have been shaped by a sort of 'Dont Say Gay' mindset."

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Protesters throng streets of Georgia's capital after parliament passes so-called 'Russian law' WSOC TV [Video]

Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday approved a foreign influence bill that critics call a Russian-style threat to free speech and the countrys aspirations to join the European Union