![]() POLITICO looked at how Trump could drag out the proceedings and “push the trial deep into the 2024 presidential campaign” and how Fox News and Trump are kissing and making up. president to be arrested (and released) in New York, in the first of three ongoing criminal cases against him. Trump arraignment: Former President Donald Trump will be dominating the news cycle on Tuesday, when he’s expected to become the first U.S. President Joe Biden will tout clean energy investments in Minnesota, while Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley today will become the first 2024 presidential candidate to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.Ĭourting China: European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron are in Beijing putting on a united front meeting President Xi Jinping. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Belgium through Wednesday for a NATO Foreign Ministerial meeting and the tenth U.S.-EU Energy Council meeting. ![]() Check out the backstory in Brussels Playbook. Milatović won around 60 percent of the vote, though few official results have been announced. MONTENEGRANS END THREE DECADE PRESIDENTIAL RULE: Former Economy Minister Jakov Milatović - who campaigned on an anti-corruption, pro-EU platform - has managed to unseat Milo Đukanović after more than three decades of rule in Sunday’s presidential runoff. This morning the results have shifted: the center-right ruling party, GERB, is now in the lead with 26.5 percent of the vote, compared to 25 percent for the pro-Western coalition Left out: Marin’s loss follows that of Sweden’s Magdalena Andersson voted out at a general election last September, and comes alongside Germany’s Olaf Scholz being under pressure at home.īULGARIA - RULING RIGHT-WING PARTY ON EDGE OF DEFEAT: In their fifth election in two years Sunday, Bulgarians seemed at first to have given a new pro-Western coalition - We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria - a narrow lead with 26.4 percent of the vote. Sarin’s tenure will be remembered for the country’s NATO revolution: turning 180 degrees from decades of neutrality to NATO members in the space of a few months in 20. Losing while winning: Marin’s Social Democrats actually increased their number of seats from 40 to 43, a particularly unusual gain in Finland’s fractious multi-party politics, but to no avail. Aura Salla, Meta’s top lobbyist in Brussels, will be leaving her role to take up a seat in parliament for the new ruling party. ![]() POLITICO’s Charlie Duxbury profiled Orpo here. That result leaves Orpo two seats ahead of the far-right Finns Party, and five seats ahead of Marin’s Social Democrats: meaning Orpo needs to form a multi-party coalition in the coming days to claim power. Now, with 99 percent of votes counted (yes, in a single night), Petteri Orpo, the leader of Finland’s center-right National Coalition Party, has claimed victory after securing 48 of Finland’s 200 parliamentary seats. Security Council presidency through April, to the fallout of three elections in Europe: two cliffhangers in Finland and Bulgaria, and the end of a three-decade presidency in Montenegro.Īnd then there’s Donald Trump’s arrest … more on that below.įINNISH PM SANNA MARIN DEFEATED IN CLIFFHANGER ELECTION: In the months leading up to Sunday’s election, the top three parties in Finland swapped the lead in polls: whoever inched ahead always remained within the polling margin of error. With neither the Senate nor the House in session this week, the political action is outside of Washington: from Russia throwing political hand grenades in New York while holding the U.N. Follow Ryan on Twitter | Send tips and insights to
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