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By Michel Rose, Andreas Rinke and Krisztina Than PARIS/BERLIN/BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The European Union’s powerhouses will have to tread carefully around Giorgia Meloni if the nationalist candidate’s coalition wins Italy’s election on Sunday, or risk pushing Rome towards Hungary and Poland, European officials said. At play is the balance of power inside the EU as …

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By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s leaders held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a parliamentary election at the weekend that is expected to be won by a rightist alliance, putting Rome on possible collision course with Brussels. A trio of centre-left and centrist groups held their closing meetings in …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine will never forgive Russia for a shameful conflict which has thrown back Russia’s development by half a century to Soviet times predating Mikhail Gorbachev, journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov told Reuters. Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has killed tens of thousands, left some Ukrainian cities wastelands and triggered Moscow’s biggest …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark will not extend a ban on mink breeding when the current ban expires at the turn of the year, the country’s agriculture ministry said on Friday. The government introduced the temporary ban after it ordered the culling of about 17 million mink in 2020 over fears of the animals spreading a mutated …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italy votes in a national election on Sunday that could herald its most right-wing government since World War Two, led by its first woman prime minister. The vote was called after infighting brought down Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s national unity government in July. WHO WILL WIN? Polls are not published in the …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to impose a minimum delivery fee of three euros for online book orders of less than 35 euros in order to level the playing field with independent bookstores, the culture and finance ministries said in a joint statement. (Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Alex …

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By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s rightist bloc led by Giorgia Meloni is strongly expected to win Sunday’s election but voter sentiment has shifted in the last two weeks and surprises should not be ruled out, pollsters say. Since publication of opinion polls was banned two weeks ago the left-leaning, unaligned …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Swiss voters decide on Sunday whether to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country’s strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further. The proposal under the Swiss system of direct democracy wants to make protecting the dignity of farm animals such as cattle, chickens and pigs …

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KAZAN (Reuters) – Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev told a banking forum on Friday that he believes foreign investors will return to the Russian market at some point in the future, but they will be from different countries than before. (Reporting by Reuters)