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Liz Truss battles to save her skin at UK election

She struggled to defeat a lettuce and now Britain’s shortest serving prime minister is fighting for her political life in her Norfolk constituency.

June 30, 2024 4:00 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

White House knows it can do little to push back on ‘problematic’ Netanyahu

The Biden administration has no choice but to work with the Israeli prime minister to get a cease-fire and hostage deal done.

June 29, 2024 2:34 pm CET

EU leaders chided Rutte over opposition to joint defense spending, Tusk says

“It was a bit awkward,” Tusk said.

June 28, 2024 6:39 pm CET
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Farage let the cat out of the bag — NATO expansion was just an excuse for Putin

Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didn’t do — he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.

June 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

China’s military is tapping into EU-funded research

Ties with high-risk Chinese universities come at an awkward time for the bloc.

June 27, 2024 5:59 pm CET

Le Pen raises the stakes by challenging Macron’s role as commander-in-chief

Far right is warning it will use budget as lever to influence French president’s authority over defense policy.

June 27, 2024 12:54 pm CET

Biden plagiarized him in the 1980s. Now Neil Kinnock wants the president to take a few more notes.

A Q&A with Neil Kinnock, who inadvertently tanked Biden’s first presidential run and sees some similarities between the British left and the U.S. left.

June 27, 2024 7:03 am CET
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June 27, 2024 5:00 am CET

Germany’s Scholz blasts EU for failure to do trade deals

Berlin didn’t relinquish its powers to do trade deals in order for Brussels to do nothing, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tells lawmakers.

June 26, 2024 5:05 pm CET
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Pistorius: Der Schattenkanzlerkandidat

Präsentiert von EFPIA.

June 26, 2024 5:50 am CET

Sorry Farage, Putin is provoked by Ukrainian independence — not NATO

By amplifying Putin’s bogus claims of NATO’s responsibility for today’s war, Western politicians like Trump and Farage risk legitimizing Russian imperialism.

June 26, 2024 4:02 am CET

What a Labour government means for UK-China relations

Keir Starmer’s party has promised to launch an overhaul of the U.K.’s approach to China within months of taking office, with potentially significant trade-offs.

June 25, 2024 9:00 pm CET

Nobody even noticed the Tories’ biggest legacy

Five years ago this week, in the teeth of the Brexit wars, an outgoing Tory prime minister was looking for a legacy. Theresa May settled on net zero —and now it’s on Labour to keep that target alive.

June 25, 2024 8:00 pm CET

Germany records sharp rise in antisemitic incidents

Most recorded antisemitic incidents in Germany last year came after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to a monitoring group.

June 25, 2024 5:02 pm CET

Famine will loom over Gaza as long as conflict rages, report warns

Latest data shows that more than half of the population often doesn’t have any food to eat, nearly nine months into Israel’s bombardment and siege of the enclave.

June 25, 2024 4:03 pm CET

Hungary is flirting with China — at what cost to the EU?

Budapest’s friendly ties with Beijing run contrary to Brussels’ de-risking efforts.

June 25, 2024 6:00 am CET

UK election candidates battle death threats and abuse

A rising tide of anti-politician feeling is limiting appetite for public-facing events.

June 25, 2024 4:00 am CET

French nukes are for France only, says far-right National Rally

In its new electoral program the party refuses “transfers of competence” to the EU in terms of defense and foreign policy.

June 24, 2024 8:01 pm CET

Dagestani official sacked after sons implicated in Sunday’s deadly attacks

Russian officials blame the West for the slayings, following the same script used after the Crocus City Hall mass shooting in March.

June 24, 2024 5:04 pm CET

Russia started Berlin factory fire as part of hybrid war on Europe, report says

German police believe a technical defect caused the blaze, but security officials have blamed Russia.

June 24, 2024 1:33 pm CET

Sunak, Starmer slam Farage claim that EU, NATO ‘provoked’ invasion of Ukraine

“We have provoked this war,” the Reform UK leader said Friday evening.

June 22, 2024 5:25 pm CET
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