That puts him in line to lead talks to form a new ruling coalition and possibly become the country’s first hard-right prime minister at a time of political upheaval through much of the continent. The exit poll published by national broadcaster NOS said that Mr Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 35 seats in the 150-seat
The polling stations across the Netherlands closed at 9 pm, and the government published its official exit poll, conducted by Ipsos throughout the day. To the surprise of everyone, Geert Wilders’ PVV not only jumped to first place in the poll but is projected to secure 35 seats, up from 17 in 2021. At second
IN THE 21 years since it was founded, SpaceX, a rocketry firm set up by Elon Musk, has become the world’s space superpower. Its cheap, reusable Falcon-9 rocket dominates the launch industry. Thanks mostly to its Starlink satellite-internet business, the firm sends more mass into orbit each year than every other company and country on
Ryanair has cut one route from Prestwick Airport for next year, while five routes to and from Edinburgh have also been scrapped. The airline will no longer be operating flights between Prestwick and Marseille. Ryanair has also withdrawn routes from Edinburgh to Carcassone, Nîmes, and Poitiers in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and Turin
In the European tradition, at least since Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550; 1568), more commonly known as The Lives of the Artists, there has been a fascinating interplay between those who make art and those who write about it. Vasari, for instance, was accused soon after the publication
Just over a month after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a St. Petersburg artist, Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, conducted an antiwar performance. She replaced five price tags in a store with tags bearing antiwar statements. Among such statements were, for example, the following: “My great-grandfather participated in World War II for four years
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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. While the stereotype about the Middle Ages is that it was an era of darkness and filth, medieval art and literature suggest the opposite—it was a colorful epoch, even bright—during which people delighted in bathing and appreciated its medicinal value. Bathing for Health That
The Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund (SCIF) has awarded more than £47 million for 12 projects which will be doubled by match funding from the sector, representing over £98 million of new private/public investment in space research and development infrastructure. Further projects will be announced in the coming weeks. Not only will the funding support the
The Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, a contemporary photo exhibition which was due to be held in the German cities of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, in March 2024, has been cancelled after one of the curators posted content on social media that the cities’ authorities described as antisemitic. Facebook posts since 7 October by Shahidul Alam,