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Lithuania: Government crisis in Vilnius intensifies

Lithuania’s President Gitas Nausėda has criticized the coalition with the right-wing populist party Nemunas Dawn from the outset. Now the government of Social Democratic Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė could collapse in the dispute over the right-wing populists.

By Aleksandra Fedorska and Gabriela Masztafiak

French government faces a vote of confidence in the National Assembly PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 8: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou leaves after he delivered his general policy statement during an extraordinary parliamentary session ahead of a confidence vote on the government s austerity budget, at the National Assembly in Paris, France on September 8, 2025. Mustafa Yalcin Anadolu Paris World.

France gets new prime minister

As expected by the French head of government himself, François Bayrou lost the vote of confidence in parliament. President Emmanuel Macron intends to appoint a new prime minister this week.

By Marion Bergermann