45% of Republicans support a universal vaccine mandate, a new poll found.
Comparatively, 84% of Democrats support a universal mandate
A majority of Americans (64%) also supported such a mandate.
Catalan pro-independence parties look set to hold on to their
absolute majority in Thursday’s snap regional elections, dealing a
severe blow to the Spanish government, which called the polls in the
hope of heading off the secessionist threat.
With 90% of the votes counted, the three separatist parties are on
course to win 70 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament even though
the centre-right Citizens party appears to be the single party with the
most seats.
Together for Catalonia,
the party led by deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, is
expected to take 34 seats, the Catalan Republican Left 32 and the
far-left, anti-capitalist Popular Unity Candidacy four. Between them,
they will have enough seats to reassemble the parliamentary majority
that put them into office after the 2015 elections.
The Citizens party, which has taken a fiercely anti-independence
stance, is on track to win 36 seats, the Catalan socialist party 17,
Catalunya en Comú-Podem (the Catalan version of the anti-austerity
Podemos party) eight and the conservative People’s party four.
Xavier Albiol, the leader of the Catalan People’s party,
congratulated the Citizens party on its results and conceded it had not
gone well for his own party.
Thursday’s vote is the latest chapter in the extraordinary showdown that
has pitched the defiantly separatist former government of Catalonia
against the Madrid authorities and brought about Spain’s worst political
crisis since its return to democracy four decades ago.
A new poll published on Wednesday assessing German attitudes toward the
government found that a clear majority of people view the trade deal as
harmful and worry it could undermine consumer protection.
According to the survey, conducted by German broadcaster ARD, 70 percent
of the participants said they believe the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP) has more disadvantages than it does
advantages.
That's a steep increase from the 2014 survey, which found
that 55 percent of Germans viewed the agreement negatively.
Seventeen percent of participants said they saw the deal as being
advantageous for Germany, while 13 percent said they didn't know or had
no position.
Additionally, 79 percent of the survey's participants said they believed
the agreement would hurt consumer protection, while 83 percent
expressed dissatisfaction with the secretive way in which the government
handled the negotiations.
T urkey's governing AK party is on course to lose its parliamentary majority, early projections suggest.
They also suggest the pro-Kurdish HDP is set to cross the 10% threshold, securing seats for the first time.
With 90% of the vote counted, the AKP had 42% of the vote, according to Turkish TV stations.
If
confirmed, the result would end the AKP's 13-year single-party rule,
and upset President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to boost his office's
powers.
President Erdogan, who first came to power as prime
minister in 2003, has been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey
into a presidential republic.
The eurosceptic backlash in the
recent European elections was a major shock to the EU establishment.
Large numbers of people voted for anti-European parties across the bloc.
In France Marine Le Pen’s Front National won 25 percent of the ballot,
while in Britain the UK Independence Party (UKIP) bettered that still, with 27 percent of the poll.
Against that backdrop euronews’ Isabelle Kumar spoke to Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council
. In addition to discussing the political ramifications of the EU
election result and what it means for Europe, Rompuy also spoke about
the crisis between the EU, Ukraine and Russia, his future plans, and his
love for Haiku poetry.
Play the video ( click on link below) to watch the full interview
Most voters US consider foreign spying a serious threat to the United States, but three-out-of-four think America spies on other countries as much or more than they spy on them.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe spying on the United States by other countries is at least a somewhat serious threat, with 26% who say it’s Very Serious.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 25% think foreign spying is not a serious threat, but that includes only three percent (3%) who feel it’s Not At All Serious. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Only thirty-four percent (34%) of Likely U.S. Voters favor the NSA’s tracking of the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans as part of the effort to fight terrorism, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
