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Keir Starmer says he wants a better Brexit trade deal

Keir Starmer says he wants a better Brexit trade deal

The new U.K. prime minister told Northern Ireland’s government in Belfast existing rules must be enforced before he could seek further changes.

July 8, 2024 4:26 pm CET
French left beats Le Pen’s far right in election shock
Biden skeptics debate whether to ‘get a spine’
Biden tried to put his campaign crisis behind him. It isn��t working yet.
Orbán alliance gains enough support to be EU Parliament group
Labour’s top policy priorities

Labour’s top policy priorities

July 6, 2024 3:40 pm CET
Dutch, Spanish far-right parties to join Orbán’s Patriots for Europe
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Turkey footballer suspended for wolf gesture a day before Erdoğan attends Euro 2024

Merih Demiral’s goal celebration using a controversial wolf’s head symbol sparked a diplomatic dispute.

July 5, 2024 5:43 pm CET

Jeremy Corbyn leads left-wing Gaza revolt against Labour

Independent MPs set to be thorn in PM Keir Starmer’s side over the Middle East.

July 5, 2024 1:02 pm CET

Who is Keir Starmer? Britain’s new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved

Starmer could be a great reforming Labour PM. Or he could be, as his thwarted enemies call him, a Tory in red.

July 5, 2024 6:04 am CET

Nigel Farage elected to UK parliament — on his eighth attempt

The Reform UK leader said he was now gunning for Labour.

July 5, 2024 5:17 am CET

Kylian Mbappé fears ‘these people’ running France as far right shoots for election win

French football captain calls first-round results ‘catastrophic’ after Marine Le Pen’s big victory.

July 4, 2024 6:44 pm CET
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July 4, 2024 5:00 am CET

Where’s Macron? French president disappears amid election crisis.

The leader “underestimated how much the public were turned off by his personality,” one party official told POLITICO.

July 4, 2024 4:01 am CET

Germany’s Scholz breaks bad on migration

Multiple high-profile acts of violence and the rising popularity of the far right have convinced the German chancellor to deport migrants who commit crimes.

July 4, 2024 4:00 am CET

Germany and Turkey clash over football player’s nationalist wolf salute

“Symbols of Turkish right-wing extremists have no place in our stadiums,” a German minister said.

July 3, 2024 3:14 pm CET

Biden’s envoy to Hungary lashes Orbán for backing Trump

No other U.S. ally has so “overtly and tireless” campaigned for the Republican candidate, says David Pressman.

July 3, 2024 9:24 am CET

Gaza is still the hottest election issue in these parts of Britain

Labour Leader Keir Starmer faces intense pressure in heartland constituencies over his equivocation about war in the Middle East.

July 3, 2024 4:01 am CET

Trump’s plan for NATO is emerging

Trump advisers envision a ‘radical reorientation’ in which Washington takes a back seat to Europe — and cuts a deal with Putin over Ukraine.

July 3, 2024 4:01 am CET
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Democrats begin attacking Biden’s performance and campaign

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said the president needs to step aside and usher in a “new generation of leaders.”

July 2, 2024 11:40 pm CET

Nigel Farage suffers new blow as bigotry storm engulfs his party

Candidate defects to the Tories saying “vast majority” of people standing for Reform UK are “racist, misogynistic, and bigoted.”

July 2, 2024 3:53 pm CET

Five simple steps to deceiving your way to Downing Street

From dodgy data to flagrant fibs, POLITICO has the inside track on how politicians are scheming to win votes at the U.K. general election.

July 2, 2024 4:02 am CET

Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?

The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France.

July 1, 2024 4:01 am CET

Le Pen’s far right set for big win in first round of French election

Early projections show National Rally on course for victory in the vote for a new parliament as Emmanuel Macron’s election gamble backfires.

June 30, 2024 7:59 pm CET

Orbán’s Fidesz forming new far-right alliance with Austrian, Czech parties

The alliance with Austria’s FPÖ and the Czech ANO Movement hopes to become a new group in the European Parliament.

June 30, 2024 1:00 pm CET

With EU bid stuck, Georgia prays for Euro 2024 victory instead

Amid warnings of backsliding on key reforms, the ruling party is focusing on a different type of goal altogether.

June 30, 2024 11:31 am CET

EU finalizes up to €1B in aid to Egypt as part of migration deal

Brussels has made similar deals with Tunisia, Mauritania and Turkey to curb irregular migration into the EU.

June 29, 2024 5:01 pm CET

Biden team worries as Macron’s election gamble looks doomed

The U.S. president’s inner circle at first was merely startled by Macron’s gamble, but that initial reaction has curdled into puzzlement and dismay.

June 29, 2024 3:24 pm CET

Let’s be a bit more honest about what a ‘European identity’ looks like

Emphasizing Europe’s “Judeo-Christian” heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.

June 29, 2024 4:01 am CET

Democrats freak out over Biden’s debate performance: ‘Biden is toast’

One prominent operative texted, “Time for an open convention.”

June 28, 2024 5:58 am CET

Macron is like Nero and Pontius Pilate for calling snap election, says left-wing rival

The sudden vote was a gamble by the French president “to limit the damage” to his own party, a leftist MEP has said.

June 27, 2024 8:12 pm CET
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