A row has been sparked by Independent TDs who will support the incoming government, but not hold ministerial office, according to our Political Correspondent Cormac McQuinn. The group, which ...

will be assisted by central government, with £5m of funding. They will be advised by Tom Crowther KC, who led the Telford grooming gang inquiry, with its report published in 2022. Politics latest ...

Dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked.” An oligarchy is defined as a "government by the few" or a "government in which a small group exercises control especially for ...

Kamarck worked in Democratic politics before joining former President Bill Clinton’s administration and leading its National Performance Review, known as the reinventing government initiative.

Zhelyazkov added his government’s priorities would include protecting rule of law and ensuring Bulgaria joins the eurozone. It fully joined the EU’s borderless Schengen Area on Jan. 1 but is not a ...

a nation of people so uneducated as to be unaware of their own form of government, that it accepts corruption in its education, politics, entertainment, media, journalism, business and religion.

governments cracked down and wrongfully arrested and imprisoned political opponents, activists, and journalists. Armed groups and government forces unlawfully killed civilians, drove many from ...

An oligarch is someone who influences politics outside ... certainly fits the definition today: The tech billionaire has taken calls with foreign leaders, stopped a government spending bill ...

But Musk has already enjoyed a stunning return on his political investment ... s oligarchs went even further in trying to capture the government by joining the government themselves.

The NATO member needs political stability to speed up the uptake of EU funds into its creaking infrastructure and nudge it towards adopting the euro. "Bulgaria needs a regular government that will ...

Speaking about the draft Programme for Government this evening, Mícheál Martin, who is likely to return to the Office of Taoiseach in the next government, described the plan as "very ambitious".

But in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon, Ms Phillipson said the government would now go ahead with the legislation because academic freedom was "much more important than the wishes of ...