Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault says they have not heard back from the commission after the party was dropped from the leaders' debate.

But is this how we want to run our democracy, by dangling cash in front of voters? What next, scratch-off ballots with random prizes for voting “correctly”?

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 1 - Premier Giorgia Meloni has said that Marine Le Pen's conviction on Monday by a French court of the illegal use of European Parliament funds was a sad day for democracy.