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Editorial: The country’s likely next prime minister sketches a post-Thatcherite state built on radical devolution. The test is whether Whitehall yields
France will hold the first round of its next presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a run-off set for May 2, an executive source said on Tuesday. The vote is widely seen as a pivotal test for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally as President Emmanuel Macron prepares to leave office after his final term
From a hopeless candidate to botched strategy, this latest byelection defeat is telling. But for Labour, there is still a long and arduous journey ahead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
ROME, June 24 (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday pushed back against remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that hundreds of U.S. aircraft had taken off from American bases in Italy to support military operations against Iran, saying Rome had authorised only technical and logistical flights. Rutte, speaking to Fox News television, cited Italy as an example of European support for the U.S. and said 500 U.S. planes had taken off from U.S. bases in Italy "to support Epic Fury", Washington's name for the war it launched alongside Israel
A scientific analysis concluded that such high temperatures, across so much of the continent, would “not have been possible” without global warming
The meeting in Berlin signalled to Washington that Europe was ready to do more ahead of next month's NATO summit
Belgian authorities have launched a procedure that could result in an arrest warrant being issued for former EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, due to his alleged involvement in the Qatargate scandal, according to a Belgian judicial source cited by De Standaard and shared with Euractiv. The former Commissioner served on the board of Fight Impunity, […]
Ukraine’s president will not attend after sparking Polish ‘outrage’ over naming of military unit
His departure in the coming weeks clears a path for Andy Burnham, a popular Labour Party mayor, to become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade
The Hungarian prime minister spoke for nearly an hour about the "mafia" that had overtaken the country during his predecessor's time in office
Not just a legislation "but the condition for regaining control of migration policy in Europe," says EPP MEP François-Xavier Bellamy
Macron said a joint France-UK mission to ensure the Strait opens was prepared to deploy 'very quickly'