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We have a decision, based on the experience we had in the last year, not to participate in the current political context in governments with the Social Democratic Party, and if this party is in a government, PNL will go into opposition. (...) I informed Mr. Luca Niculescu that PNL is open to granting a vote of installation to this Government. The leader of the liberals, interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, informed the designated Prime Minister that PNL does not intend to participate, alongside PSD, in the government that will be proposed, but that it is open to granting "a vote of installation." #Guvernare #LucaNiculescu #FormaGuvernului (translated)

I make a special appeal to PNL and UDMR to show political maturity, to contribute to the building of a transparent majority, if the PSD wishes to participate in the government or in this common endeavor. If we do not find ourselves in this project for the economy that we briefly announced and do not have a clear assumption from the other parties, PSD will not hesitate to say 'no' to this political effort. Normally, PSD should have received the mandate to form a majority that would invest a government and we could have built a majority, if you will, around the idea of change, because 80% of Romanians are asking us for this change, and the parliamentarians, after all, cannot ignore this request. However, we have a designation in the person of Mr. Niculescu. Therefore, my appeal is directed at the parties. To leave aside political pride, to think more about people, especially about the people who are watching us and expecting solutions from us. The real confrontation should not be on the political front between parties during this period," declared Sorin Grindeanu. #Guvernare #LucaNiculescu #FormaGuvernului (translated)

Luca Niculescu continues today the negotiations with the parliamentary parties for forming the new government, having scheduled meetings with the representatives of the Save Romania Union, national minorities, the PACE parliamentary group, and United for Romania. #Guvernare #LucaNiculescu #FormaGuvernului (translated)

The essence is that we have won again, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and leader of the ANO movement nonetheless stated at the Saturday press conference that ANO is the strongest political force in the country at all levels except the Senate. #Volby2026 #HnutíANO #KomunálníVolby (translated)

The proposal from the Irish presidency cannot be the starting point for an agreement. Romanian EU parliamentarian Siegfried Mureşan from the European People's Party, who will lead the negotiations with the Council on the financial framework for the Parliament, points out that this new proposal would mean that the Union's budget would effectively shrink by about ten percent. #EUBudget #IrischerRatsvorsitz #Finanzrahmen (translated)

Negotiations between the Estonian trade unions and the employers' central union about the minimum wage for 2027 will start on Monday, aiming to ensure the purchasing power of low-wage workers increases and to reach the agreed target for the minimum wage to reach 50 percent of the average salary in Estonia. #miinimumpalk #läbirääkimised #Eesti (translated)

The time has come for Ukraine to choose a new president. The pressure from the USA followed a wave of criticism from Trump, who on Saturday accused Zelensky of jeopardizing the world with strikes on Russian refineries and suggested that "the time has come for Ukraine to choose a new president." #Ukraina #Waszyngton #Trump (translated)

For a car manufacturer like Škoda, it doesn't make a difference whether it will be 90 or 100 percent. The share of internal combustion engines is so low that it is no longer profitable to manufacture something like the Octavia when you sell 10,000 of them a year. It may be profitable for a brand that makes expensive sports cars, but not for Škoda Auto. Today, the former member of the management board of Škoda Auto, Martin Jahn, who is now the sales director of VW, commented on this clearly in a June interview for Hospodářské noviny: "For a car manufacturer like Škoda, it doesn't make a difference whether it will be 90 or 100 percent. The share of internal combustion engines is so low that it is no longer profitable to manufacture something like the Octavia when you sell 10,000 of them a year. It may be profitable for a brand that makes expensive sports cars, but not for Škoda Auto." #elektromobily #spalovacímotory #emise (translated)

Influential politicians in Europe are striving to ease the planned ban on combustion engines, which is set to be proposed by 2035, while the current proposal anticipates a 73 percent reduction in average emissions and greater compensations through the use of synthetic fuels and green steel. #elektromobily #spalovacímotory #emise (translated)

Dutch Defense Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius stated that Russia is an enemy of the Netherlands, which provoked a strong reaction from Moscow, which described her words as a provocation and demands an official statement from the government in Amsterdam. #Rusko #Nizozemsko #bezpečnost (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Mikhaïl Zvinchuk, an influential pro-Russian blogger, was expelled from Montenegro to Moscow and has attracted attention due to a announced reward of 10 million for information about him in the context of the war in Ukraine. #GuerreEnUkraine #MikhailZvinchuk #Montenegro (translated)

The author stated that a part of the left was more concerned with defining what was morally correct and just than with supporting actions that could help. He said that the presence of shirtless people at a protest or the criticism of André Janones for being alarmist should not divert the focus and advocated for people to engage to support those who were already acting. #LutaSocial #Política #DireitosHumanos (translated)